In Pictures: Top Aerospace & Defense Stories, Oct. 27 2022

October 28, 2022

Aviation Week Forecasts: Iconic U.S. Military Aircraft Programs Now Export Led

Credit: Cpl Tim Laurence, UK Ministry of Defense. Some of the most iconic U.S. military aircraft programs, like the CH-47 Chinook, are set to be export lead in terms of the value of deliveries over the next decade, according to preliminary findings from the Aviation Week Network 2023 Military Fleet & MRO Forecast.

NASA’s Mars MRO, InSight Lander Detect Subsurface Martian Water Ice

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Working with NASA’s long-running Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the agency’s soon-to-conclude Mars InSight Lander mission has made a potentially far-reaching discovery

Russian Government Approves ISS Funding Through 2027

Credit: NASA. Russia has formalized its decision to stay at the International Space Station (ISS) beyond 2024, the first nation to do so.

UAM Link Planned For New South Korean Airport

Credit: Hanwha Systems. South Korea’s SK Telecom has signed an agreement with Daegu Metropolitan City to integrate urban air taxis into the future mobility ecosystem of the country’s fourth largest city and its planned new airport.

Amazon Expanding Kuiper Satellite Manufacturing Facilities

Credit: Amazon. With its first two satellites set for launch in early 2023, Amazon on Oct. 27 unveiled plans for an additional, 172,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing plant in the Seattle area that will be dedicated to production of Kuiper satellites for an Amazon-owned high-speed broadband network.

Missile Defense Review Highlights Hypersonic Defense, Guam

Credit: U.S. Air Force. The Pentagon needs to develop and acquire more agile missile tracking sensors and defeat systems, with a specific focus on regional hypersonic threats and protecting the island of Guam, as adversaries.

Nuclear Posture Review Outlines DOD’s SLCM-N, B83-1 Rationale

Credit: Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexander Kubitza. The Biden administration, in its long-awaited outline of nuclear policy, describes its cancelation of the contentious Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear (SLCM-N) and the retirement of the B83-1 gravity bomb as needed steps to free up resources for more critical modernization programs.

Another Chinese Large Cargo UAV Takes Flight

Credit: Sichuan Tengden Science & Technology. Another design has been added to the list of large uncrewed cargo aircraft under development in China, with Sichuan Tengden Science & Technology conducting the first flight of its Twin-Tailed Scorpion D on Oct. 25.

Su-57 Prototype Flies With New Upgrades

A prototype of the Russian Sukhoi Su-57 has flown with new upgrades that add new automated features and may enable in the future a re-engining and an expanded set of munitions, United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) says. 

Embraer Positions To Participate In S. Korean Transport Program

Credit: Embraer. Embraer has signed agreements with three South Korean aerospace companies.

Italy’s Carabinieri Procures AW119 Light Helicopters

Credit: Leonardo. Italy’s military police force, the Carabinieri, has ordered 20 AW119Kx single-engine light helicopters from Leonardo.

Russian Government approves ISS funding through 2027 and UAM link planned for new South Korean Airport. Take a look at these and more in our daily roundup of aerospace & defense news.

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