Despite the Western sanctions, famed Russian jet maker MiG is at the Paris Air Show to remind the public—and the industry—of its latest iteration of the Fulcrum family, the MiG-35 fighter, and to attract attention to its other efforts.

Ontario, Canada, remains a stable source of aerospace activity, although some chinks in the armor have appeared over the last year. Some sectors have shown modest growth, while others have retrenched.

The world’s most “printed engine,” GE’s new Advanced Turboprop, in which additive manufacturing replaces 855 normally made parts with just 12 “printed” components, is on track to run for the first time this year. It will power Cessna’s new Denali aircraft.

Half a century after its founding, Elbit Systems is a global defense powerhouse ranked 26th among the world’s defense companies, yet innovation and defense electronics are still its core assets.

Elbit Systems is publicizing a novel WAPS/wide area persistent surveillance capability that was kept under wraps for years, as it was providing unique operational capability for homeland security and the fight against terror.

Insurgents and terrorists have mastered the use of commercially available drones for target acquisition and aerial attack.

“Transportation as we know it is set to change. The dominant solutions available today are deeply flawed and demand disruption,” states Omer Bar-Yohai, the founder of EViation – the Israeli startup that is preparing to lead this change.

Elbit Systems has received the first order, worth USD17 million, from a NATO country, for its BrightNite vision system, designed to enhance the visibility and situational awareness of helicopter pilots in degraded visual environment flight conditions.