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By Steve Trimble
A 12-year sales campaign for the optionally piloted Firebird failed to attract a production order.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Zanite Acquisition has beefed up the committed funding that is backing its planned going-public merger with Eve, Embraer’s urban air mobility spinoff, as it heads into a May 6 shareholder vote on the deal.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Capella Space has unveiled new software features that automate analysis of images captured by its synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
A hydrogen leak halted NASA’s third attempt to fuel the first Space Launch System rocket at the launchpad on April 14.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Ukraine has added “heavy drones” made by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. to an urgent shopping list of advanced weapons to fight against Russian invaders.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Honeywell has started testing reaction time differences between expert pilots and novices on its prototype simplified vehicle operation cockpit system for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Russia's TASS news agency report ends a day of speculation about the status of 12,490-ton vessel.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. State Department has approved a potential sale of 12 Bell AH-1Z attack helicopters to Nigeria worth an estimated $997 million.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
Russia has agreed to send a Belarusian citizen to space, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko announced after a meeting with Russia President Vladimir Putin at Vostochny Cosmodrome on April 12.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Poland has accelerated its Narew short-range air defense program, with the aim of introducing the first elements into service this year.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force’s surprise plan to cut to its buy of Sikorsky HH-60W helicopters comes as the service is conducting an internal, wargames-based review of what the future of the combat search and rescue mission will become.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
As the service looks to cut KC-10s and KC-135s, it is expressing more confidence in the KC-46 despite continued deficiencies in its development.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A Lockheed Martin-designed, all-electric laser shot down multiple aerial targets during February tests at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, the
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The status of the Russian Navy’s Black Sea flagship is unclear after Ukrainian forces claimed to have severely damaged the warship with shore-based anti-ship missiles.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Speaking alongside Sweden’s Prime Minister, Magdalena Andersson, in Stockholm on April 13, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin told journalists that “everything had changed after Russia’s invasion [of Ukraine].”
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
Indonesian defense prime PT Pindad and Safran are discussing potential local assembly of the AASM air-to-ground modular weapon that will equip the Southeast Asian country’s future Dassault Rafale fleet.
Supply Chain

By Garrett Reim
The Air Force Research Laboratory has successfully completed testing of a prototype 1-newton thruster using its Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-toxic propellant in a vacuum chamber.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force faces a fight on Capitol Hill as it looks to get rid of dozens more of its aircraft while readily acknowledging that comes with instant risk.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. military is sending 11 more Mi-17 helicopters to Ukraine as part of a dramatic increase in military equipment for the country as it prepares for another phase of its fight against Russia.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Space Agency’s governing council announced April 13 that it is ending cooperation with Russian space agency Roscosmos on three future Moon missions—Luna 25, 26 and 27.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s SpaceX Crew 4 Dragon mission to the International Space Station holds promise for the agency’s goals of extending the life and utility of the ISS as well as transitioning its human spaceflight focus to the Moon and Mars.
Space

By Steve Trimble, Brian Everstine
Flight controls and mission systems for the next U.S. Air Force fighter will be designed to use separate software instructions, according to the service's chief of staff.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A 1-5 megawatt-class mobile nuclear reactor funded by the Strategic Capabilities Office will be tested at the Idaho National Laboratory, the Pentagon announced April 13.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
The first NATO Boeing E-3 Sentry has been flown to Italy to be inducted into the Final Lifetime Extension Program (FLEP).
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
Bcomp, a Swiss startup producing composites using natural fibers, has received an investment from Airbus Ventures as part of a CHF34 million ($35 million) Series B financing round led by BMW i Ventures.
Advanced Air Mobility