Aerospace & Defense Roundup: June 29
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Russia’s TsAGI Studies Small EVTOL Vehicle
Russian researchers have completed three years of study into a small single-person electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle for multiple missions. The work by TsAGI included tests in the central aerohydrodynamic institute’s T-102 subsonic wind tunnel in Zhukovsky outside Moscow. Credit: TsAGI
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HASC Chairman Spares GBSD In Fiscal 2022 Budget Battle
Credit: USAF
Minuteman
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Airbus Flies C295 In Armed ISR Configuration
Airbus has flown its C295 turboprop airlifter with a range of precision-guided munitions as the company looks to develop an armed intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capability for the platform. Credit: Airbus Defense and Space
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Skyborg Takes Next Step In Flight Autonomy
The U.S. Air Force has flown the Skyborg autonomy control system (ACS) on an aircraft from a second manufacturer, demonstrating the human-like portability of the software. The General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) MQ-20 Avenger performed the Skyborg test flight on June 24 during the Orange Flag large force exercise at Edwards Air Force Base, California, according to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Credit: USAF
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Northrop Grumman Wraps Up 15th ISS Resupply Mission
Northrop Grumman’s 15th Cygnus resupply mission spacecraft departed the International Space Station (ISS) on June 29 filled with trash and prepared to deploy five small satellites before making a destructive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. Credit: NASA
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Navy OKs Production For New Stand-Off Jamming Pod
The U.S. Navy has cleared the service’s first new standoff jamming system in more than 50 years to enter production. The Raytheon ALQ-249(V)1 Next Generation Jammer-Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) received Milestone C approval to proceed with low rate initial production on June 28, according to Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). Credit: NGJ-MB: Navy
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Credit: U.S. Navy
F-35
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Stratodynamics Completes Turbulence-Detection Sensor Flights
Stratodynamics and UAVOS have completed a series of stratospheric flights with the HiDRON autonomous glider from Spaceport America in New Mexico. The flights tested sensors for the onboard detection of clear air turbulence. Credit: Stratodynamics
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House Appropriators Omit Additional F-35s In Draft Legislation
Credit: U.S. Air Force
F-35
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China’s Road Map For Heavy-Lift Rockets
With sights on lunar and deep space missions, China has firmed up its road map to develop heavy-lift rockets based on the Long March 5 and the new Long March 9. Speaking to the University of Hong Kong, Long Lehao, rocket chief designer of the Long March, said China wants to conduct manned missions to the Moon before 2030, and this will be achieved by a modified Long March 5 rocket designated as CZ-5DY, or Deng Yue, meaning Moon landing. Credit: Chinese Ministry of National Defense
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Motor Sich Engine To Power Turkish Attack Helicopter
Ukraine’s Motor Sich is to provide a batch of engines for Turkish Aerospace’s (TAI) new ATAK-2 heavy attack helicopter. The two companies signed agreements on June 29 for 14 TV3-117 turboshafts that will power the first examples of TAI’s new twin-engine, 10-metric-ton class rotorcraft. Credit: Turkish Aerospace Industries
Airbus flies C295 in armed ISR configuration, Skyborg takes next step in flight autonomy, Navy OKs production for new standoff hamming pod, UK Defense Minister urges cutting F-35 operating costs and more. A roundup of aerospace, space and defense news powered by Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN).
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