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By Lee Hudson
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee believes it is time for Congress and the Pentagon to “cut our losses” on the F-35 program and begin to debate a future fighter mix that does not depend as heavily on the Joint Strike Fighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
The difficulties of the Future Combat Air System program not only hinge on intellectual property issues, but also on work sharing between its French, German and Spanish partners, Dassault Aviation Chairman and CEO Eric Trappier says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
India has carried out a successful launch and flight test of a solid-fuel ducted ramjet missile demonstrator, technology the country’s defense ministry hopes can be integrated onto long-range air-to-air missiles.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Ukraine’s state-owned arms manufacturer says it plans to build Bell’s UH-1 Iroquois helicopter in Odessa.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The French Air Force has declared the MBDA Meteor beyond-visual range air-to-air missile operational on the Dassault Rafale.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Boom Supersonic has secured a strategic investment from the venture capital arm of American Express which will support development of the Denver, Colorado-based aerospace company’s Mach 2-plus 88-seat Overture airliner project.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A second airbreathing, hypersonic cruise missile program may give the U.S. Navy multiple options for a carrier-compliant, F/A-18E/F-compatible weapon.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The ER GMLRS is designed to more than double the 70 km.-range of the baseline GMLRS, but the first flight met test objectives with an 80 km. flight.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
NASA has awarded Northrop Grumman a sole-source contract worth up to $84.5 million to provide the two-stage ascent vehicle needed to launch samples from the surface of Mars into Mars orbit, where they can be retrieved by a return ship and flown back to Earth.
Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA is bumping the upcoming reflight of Boeing’s uncrewed CST-100 Starliner spacecraft until sometime after the arrival of four astronauts aboard SpaceX’s second operational Crew Dragon taxi flight to the International Space Station.
Space

By Steve Trimble
One of five RCAF C-150s, a military derivative of the A310, rejoined the fleet, the RCAF announced in a March 4 Tweet. The aircraft, which also is used as a VIP transport, was damaged in 2019 while being towed into a hangar.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The bipartisan task force will review the industrial base supply chain to identify threats and vulnerabilities.
Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno
Red 6, a California startup aiming to provide air combat training with augmented reality technology, has landed $7 million in new funding and signed former U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper to its advisory board.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Irene Klotz
Nine hours after a SpaceX team in Texas landed a full-scale Starship prototype for the first time, colleagues in Florida launched a Falcon 9 rocket with 60 more satellites for the company’s high-speed internet service system.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Belgian politicians are set to question the country’s need to buy the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter after the chief of the U.S. Air Force announced plans for studies into its future force mix and a potential clean-sheet fighter design to replace the F-16.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX’s March 3 high-altitude test of a full-scale Starship prototype managed a soft landing—unlike two previous test vehicles—but then exploded 3 min. after touching down at the company’s facility in Boca Chica Beach, Texas.
Space

By Lee Hudson
The head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command has sent a $27.3 billion wish list, spanning the next five fiscal years, to Congress.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Thierry Dubois
Thales Alenia Space (TAS) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed the expected contract for six satellites in the second generation of the EU’s Galileo navigation constellation, after the Court of Justice of the European Union lifted a suspension.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Startup Venus Aerospace plans to proceed with the development, testing and production of a small hypersonic aircraft capable of transporting a dozen passengers or time-critical payloads between major continental destinations in an hour.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
NASA plans an industry day on March 9 for the Electrified Power train Flight Demonstration project to flight test megawatt-class electric aircraft propulsion systems.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Space Force is “another week or so away” from releasing its new acquisition and sustainment command blueprint, the service’s chief says.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Similar to the electric flying car-focused Agility Prime program, the purpose of Vector Prime is to establish a vehicle for the Air Force to support commercial companies working on supersonic and hypersonic transports.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A memorandum of understanding announced jointly by Israel Aerospace Industries and Korea Aerospace Industries on March 3 expands on cooperation between the two companies.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Guy Norris, Molly McMillin
Fractional ownership provider NetJets and training specialist FlightSafety International have signed a broad ranging agreement with Aerion which includes purchase rights on 20 AS2 supersonic business jets and the establishment of a training academy for operators of the Mach 1.4 aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
German urban air mobility startup Volocopter has raised €200 million ($241 million) to complete development and launch services with its Volocopter electric air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility