Romania’s Ministry of the Interior has signed a contract to buy a fleet of up to 12 Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters to be used by the country’s emergency services agency. 

Startup ZeroAvia has partnered with India’s Hindustan Aeronautics to develop a supplemental type certificate for its conversion of the 19-passenger Dornier 228 regional turboprop to hydrogen-electric propulsion.

Israel Aerospace Industries has teamed with Romania’s IAR-Brasov to offer the Heron unmanned air system for expected military requirements.

Germany’s Navy has received six Skeldar V-200 rotary-wing unmanned air systems to support the operations of its K130 corvettes.

If all options are exercised, work on the contract will last until Oct. 31, 2031.

The program now could enter a new phase of demonstrations with a single human controller assigned to launch and recover multiple X-61s from a C-130.

U.S. Special Operations Command recently released a request for proposals for Armed Overwatch, with a production award expected in spring 2022.

A second prototype of the Boeing Airpower Teaming System (ATS) has commenced flight tests at Australia’s Woomera Range Complex.