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By Chen Chuanren
The Philippines has placed an order to acquire 32 more Sikorsky/PZL Mielec S-70i Black Hawks to bolster its rotary wing capabilities, which have come under scrutiny following recent events.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The Houthi are believed to have targeted the UAE previously, but the Jan. 17 attack is understood to be the first to be formally acknowledged by UAE officials.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon’s new long-term budget plan, expected to be announced in March, will include a large investment in hypersonic test infrastructure to help the services develop the new weapons on an accelerated schedule.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. Air Force and UK Ministry of Defense are looking to begin remotely piloted air system operations from Fairford airfield.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
As its name suggests, Lunar Resources, Inc. is all about pioneering off-Earth manufacturing through lunar resource extraction and in-situ utilization.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
The Austrian order is the second the Italian OEM has secured in recent months through a new model of government-to-government contract.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo has been awarded contracts worth €260 million to support Hensoldt of Germany’s development of an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for Eurofighters operated by Germany and Spain.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Irene Klotz
Hours after SpaceX delivered a batch of satellites into polar orbits from Florida—previously an exclusive West Coast route—Virgin Orbit pulled off the reverse feat: deploying its customers’ spacecraft into 45-deg. inclination orbits from the California-launched LauncherOne rocket.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Jan. 13 to deliver 105 satellites into a near-polar Sun-synchronous orbits, successfully completing its third discounted rideshare flight.
Space

By Graham Warwick
LanzaJet has secured financing to complete construction of the world’s first alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant with a $50 million investment from the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has made some progress in addressing its pilot shortage thanks to increased production and retention, but still remains far below its goal.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has corrected a fact sheet after acknowledging that one successful test was double-counted in a tally of midcourse intercept tests of the Boeing Ground Based Interceptor.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company that helped sweep in the current era of startup space companies quickly going public, shocked investors Jan. 13 with news it will raise as much as $500 million by issuing new debt.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Regent Craft has teamed with Rhode Island-based marine and aerospace composites specialist Moore Brothers to build a quarter-scale technology demonstrator for its seaglider, an electric wing-in-ground-effect vehicle for harbor-to-harbor overwater regional transportation.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
The Airbus-sponsored Perlan 2 stratospheric glider will carry a Thales FlytLink satellite communications terminal when it returns to flight, enabling real-time data downloads from altitudes exceeding 90,000 ft.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
The Thai government has approved in-principle funding for the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) to acquire four new fighter jets in the next fiscal year.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Guy Norris
Hypersonix Launch Systems has signed a collaborative agreement with the University of Sydney to research and manufacture key components of its proposed spaceplane, including its Spartan scramjet propulsion system.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
French startup Aura Aero has selected Electric Power Systems (EPS) to provide the battery system for its prototype Integral E electric-powered aerobatic training aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s launch manifest for 2022 includes 30 launches, a 20% increase over 2021, Dmitry Rogozin, CEO of the Russian State Space Corp. Roscosmos, said on Jan. 12.
Space

By Brian Everstine
It has become a familiar chorus from Pentagon leaders: A long-term continuing resolution would hurt the U.S. Defense Department.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
NASA has reached an “inflection point” as it prepares to reach out sustainably to the Moon, Mars and other deep space destinations with human explorers, a steep and risky slope, NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel says.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Hungary will update its Saab Gripen fighters to the MS20 Block 2 standard, which could enable them to launch MBDA’s Meteor beyond visual range air-to-air missile. The Hungarian Air Force, which leases its 14 C/D model Gripens, has contracted the upgrade with Sweden’s FMV defense material agency. This will put the Hungarian fleet into a configuration similar to Sweden’s aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has started installation of the “enhanced” Remote Vision System (RVS) on its Boeing KC-46 fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
French defense materiel agency the DGA has begun testing engine technologies to support the development of a powerplant for the European Future Combat Air System (FCAS).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
Embraer has agreed to sell its Evora site in Portugal to Spanish aerostructures specialist Aernnova for $172 million in the hope that the facility can attract business from other aircraft manufacturers while reducing Embraer’s exposure in aircraft components.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain