Defense

U.S. remote sensing company Umbra is teaming with Germany’s Reflex Aerospace to pursue the European synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite market.

Iridium will expand work with a European partner to help navigate new tariffs that could dent operating earnings by between $3 million and $7 million this year.

South Korea has shortlisted a consortium led by KAL-ASD as the preferred bidder to upgrade 36 Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawks for special operations.

Seeking unprecedented levels of electrical power generation and thermal management, the GCAP engine team has ditched an adaptive-cycle concept.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has outlined plans to raise Spain’s defense spending to 2% of GDP.

The UK’s second-ever Carrier Strike Group with Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers has set sail for the Asia-Pacific region.

Recent Peruvian Air Force shifts in recapitalization plans reflect the service’s effort to balance long-term modernization with immediate operational needs, emphasizing combat effectiveness and national emergency response as top priorities.

Super Tier 1 suppliers are dusting off their pandemic playbooks over cost escalations during that crisis in order to manage the next wave of challenges.

Lockheed Martin will not protest Boeing’s victory in the competition to build the U.S. Air Force’s next fighter.

Northrop Grumman is continuing to eat cost overruns on the initial production of its B-21 Raider and is changing its manufacturing process.

Edge Group is seeking to win business for its HT-100 uncrewed helicopter system in Brazil.

Aviation Week & Space Technology’s May 7, 1990, issue featured an extensive feature package on the U.S. Marine Corps’ troubled V-22 tiltrotor.

The European Union wants to broaden the scope of some technology research funding efforts as part of its push to bolster the region’s defense industrial base.

Northrop Grumman lost an extra $477 million on early B-21 production, raising red ink on the first five annual lots of fixed-price contracts to over $2 billion.

Startup Beehive Industries is on track to start ground tests of its additively manufactured Frenzy engine next month, ahead of planned altitude tests with AFRL.

The imminent kickoff of the Enduring High-Energy Laser program gives industry a platform to mainstream directed-energy technology.

DARPA launched a program on April 17 to develop a new solid rocket motor with a burn surface area that can be altered after manufacturing.

The coming defense earnings season that effectively kicks off April 22 is expected to be somewhat underwhelming.

The AVIC AG600 has attained type-certification from the CAAC; at a MTOW of 60 tons, it is the world’s largest commercial amphibian aircraft.

Baykar has successfully flown a Bayraktar TB2 uncrewed aircraft system with an internally developed piston engine.

The EA-37B weapon system provides precise, high-powered, long-range, stand-off jamming. Make it an unfair fight with the EA-37B.

Rotating detonation engines have huge potential for realizing efficient high-speed flight, but they are proving fiendishly difficult to get right.

Scout AI has raised $15 million to further develop its vision-language-action artificial intelligence model.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

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