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By Molly McMillin
GKN Aerospace plans to relocate its North American additive manufacturing center of excellence to a larger, 100,000 ft.² facility in Fort Worth, Texas.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Network Staff
The delay has been attributed to “the development of the ground test equipment rather than the ship itself.”
Space

By Steve Trimble
The High-Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapon Capability (HAAWC) gives the P-8A the ability to fire torpedoes at submarines from cruise altitude.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
The missiles were fired from the Maya-class Aegis destroyers JS Maya on Nov. 16 and JS Haguro on Nov. 19 against targets fired from the U.S. Navy Missile Range Facility in Hawaii.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
Startup STELLS Space Corp. plans to launch a mobile recharging station to the Moon by 2025.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin has rolled out the first F-16 Block 70 jet to emerge from a 3 1/2-year-old assembly line in Greenville, South Carolina.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
On the eve of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ministerial council, 21 startup companies are requesting that member states approve a resolution for an open competition every time an institutional payload has to be placed into orbit.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
If a new set of software-enabled tools for battlefield communication proves effective, one of the key challenges facing the DOD's Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept could be swept away.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
German space startup Polaris Spaceplanes has performed the first flight of its spaceplane demonstrator built under a contract from the German defense ministry.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Five days into the Artemis I flight test, the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft soared past the Moon, successfully conducting a 2-min. 30-sec. firing of its shuttle-era maneuvering engine on Nov. 21 to set up a slingshot maneuver into deeper space.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Poland has accepted a German proposal to help protect the country’s airspace after a stray Ukrainian air defense missile crashed in the country last week.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The first prototype of the delta-winged aircraft began taxi trials at Corlu Airport, west of Istanbul, on Nov. 20.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The CEO of Dassault Aviation appears to be disputing German and Spanish claims that an agreement has been reached around progressing to the next phase of FCAS.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
Neither the government nor OEMs are appreciating the scope of the pressure facing the aerospace and defense supply chain, says the president and CEO of Elbit Systems of America.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
Airbus, Spain’s Indra and the German government say discussions that will allow the multibillion-euro combat aircraft project to move into the Phase 1B demonstrator period have concluded.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
In the run-up to a second captive-carry flight of its Talon hypersonic test vehicle, Stratolaunch says it has begun hot-fire runs of the rocket engine that will power the high-speed testbed on its first Mach 5 flight in early 2023.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Norway’s government has asked its military chiefs to refresh the country’s defense plans in light of new regional security threats.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
A U.S. Navy depot for the Pratt & Whitney F135 is expected to be activated in April and double the heavy maintenance capacity for the Lockheed Martin F-35’s engine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is ready to start testing how it wants pilots of its most advanced fighters to control future loyal-wingman drones, as the service plans an aggressive schedule for fielding the new aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus, Rolls-Royce and the UK Royal Air Force say they have performed the first flight of a military aircraft using 100% sustainable aviation fuel.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ministerial council plans to hear an ambitious €18.7 billion ($19.5 billion) proposal by a determined director general at its meeting Nov. 22-23.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A Pentagon official says she doubts Iran’s recent claim to have built a maneuvering hypersonic missile.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
Japan has outlined its planned contributions to NASA’s Gateway lunar-orbiting station.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. Navy believes it could align its requirements for an uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) with those of the Air Force, potentially paving the way for a joint program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) has taken delivery of its first pair of Textron T-6TH Texan II trainers, with a landing at the RTAF Kamphaeng Saen flight training school.
Light Attack and Advanced Training