Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Lee Hudson
Sikorsky intends to offer the CH-53K in heavy-lift helicopter competitions in both nations.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
“I think it will happen—no question about it. It will happen,” IAI Chairman Harel Locker said in an exclusive interview.
Defense

By Helen Massy-Beresford
“I am proud to see our big companies moving out of their comfort zones to go further, being even more creative and setting themselves up to offer more creative mobility solutions,” said French Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne.

By Lee Hudson
U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan will not move forward with his confirmation process after allegations of a 2010 domestic incident surfaced in a news report.
Defense

By Steve Trimble, Joe Anselmo
One of the first casualties of the merger of the communications and sensing companies will be L3’s headquarters in New York City, which will be consolidated with Harris’ existing facility in Melbourne, Florida.

By Guy Norris
As the aerospace industry accelerates toward an electric future, Rolls-Royce has secured a jump-start on its strategic goals with the surprise acquisition of Siemen’s electric and hybrid electric aerospace propulsion unit.

By Lee Hudson
A new U.S. airborne mine countermeasures capability entered the Baltic Sea for the first time during an annual NATO military exercise led by U.S. Naval Forces Europe.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
France’s Safran and Germany’s Diehl have agreed to work together to develop a small, lightweight tactical air-to-ground weapon: the Hussar.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has partnered with Embraer to offer a low-cost Airborne Early Warning (AEW) radar platform.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
NASA is hunting for more partners for its Artemis program that aims to land humans on the Moon in 2024.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Raytheon Missile Systems and Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems have unveiled a partnership to co-develop a scramjet-powered hypersonic missile.
Defense

By Guy Norris
UAS specialists General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has packaged control elements developed for its MQ-9B and earlier UAVs into an enhanced command and control capability.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Safran Helicopter Engines has achieved European Aviation Safety Agency certification of the Arrano turboshaft for Airbus’ new H160 twin-engine medium helicopter.
Defense

By Bill Carey
The electronically steered phased-array RDR-84K detects weather phenomena and can simultaneously scan and receive radar returns from aircraft, ground vehicles, buildings and people.

By Lee Hudson
The DOD's chief weapons buyer is using her time at the Paris Air Show to speak with European industry and government officials on the unintended consequences of not providing U.S. defense contractors access to joint European Union programs.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The company wants to resurrect a long-abandoned plan to install external fuel tanks under the wings of the conventional takeoff-and-landing variant.
Defense

By Bill Carey
SB-S will enable an aircraft to off-board operational information drawn from Avionica’s wireless data collection and transmission devices, which provide access to flight information wherever the aircraft is operating around the world.
Defense

By Adrian Schofield
The trials are based on the DroScan system developed by ST Engineering.

By Marhalim Abas
The Indonesian Air Force has introduced two new transport squadrons to the country’s most eastern provinces.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
The Philippines Air Force (PAF) has commissioned a simulator to train its pilots to fly Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) FA-50 light fighters.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Raytheon completed a nearly yearlong series of operational test drops of the all-weather StormBreaker glide bomb from the Boeing F-15E in May, the company said.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Turkish Aerospace is looking to accelerate the development of its indigenous fighter aircraft, TF-X, in an attempt to fly as early as 2025.

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force intends to purchase 20 to 30 Kratos XQ-58A Valkyries for an extended experimentation campaign, and may launch a program of record in fiscal 2021.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
France, Germany and Spain have taken the next tentative steps toward the development of a pan-European Future Combat Air System (FCAS).
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Disagreements between France and Germany over exports of jointly manufactured defense equipment could halt plans to jointly develop a new combat aircraft before they even begin, a senior Airbus official has warned.
Defense