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By Tony Osborne
The French defense budget will rise to €43.9 billion, the sixth consecutive annual increase.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Delays have slowed the gathering of experience that ArianeGroup needs for its proposed family of reusable launchers.
Space

By Bill Carey
The FAA should clarify its certification requirements for advanced air mobility vehicles and work with the federal energy department to validate battery technology and develop a charging infrastructure for electric aircraft, aviation industry representatives say.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
Senior U.S. Air Force leaders in recent days have weighed in on China’s advancements in its fighter force, criticizing Beijing’s technical prowess but offering some praise for its inventiveness ahead of the upcoming 20th National Congress and the Zhuhai air show.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says he is encouraged by recent test successes for Lockheed Martin’s Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, despite having previously expressed concern about the program.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Already planning to develop an autonomous hydrogen-fueled air and road vehicle and associated landing and refueling infrastructure, U.S. startup LuftCar has announced plans to develop a fuel-cell/battery hybrid propulsion system for the advanced air mobility market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Textron Aviation is to help startup ZeroAvia develop and certify a hydrogen-electric propulsion conversion for the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan single-turboprop utility aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
One of the more unusual designs for an urban air taxi—Spanish company Umiles Next’s “drone-of-drones” Concept Integrity—has conducted flight tests at the Onera Test Field in Toulouse.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Croatia’s Ministry of the Interior has become the first European customer for the Subaru Bell 412EPX helicopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Swiss air ambulance operator Swiss Air Rescue-Rega has canceled an order for an advanced variant of Leonardo’s AW169 rotorcraft after the OEM declared it could not develop the aircraft to agreed specifications.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
After a long period of tame increases, price spikes are returning as a fact of life in aerospace and defense.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Angus Batey
Business aviation operators are eager to get their hands on advanced air mobility platforms, but infrastructure uncertainties may slow their introduction, panel discussion participants at the Air Charter Expo say.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Czech helicopter crews have begun training flights on Bell UH-1Y and AH-1Z helicopters in preparation for first deliveries in 2023.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Three Russian cosmonauts descended safely to Earth aboard their Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft early Sept. 29, continuing an International Space Station (ISS) crew exchange process that has been extended due to Hurricane Ian’s threat to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The Spanish Defense Ministry has awarded local industry with contracts to investigate “possible evolutions of the challenges of national defense, the air domain, and will detail possible solutions to face them.”
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The Osprey’s flight crew had made an emergency landing after the 15th confirmed case of a slipped slag clutch inside the tiltrotor's engine nacelle.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
Elbit Systems confirmed that it has secured a contract with the Royal Thai Navy for its Hermes 900 uncrewed aerial system.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
The first tethered hover of the VTOL comes more than two years after the initial prototype was rolled out.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
The news comes days after SkyDrive unveiled renderings of its two-seater SD-05 eVTOL aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Stratolaunch is preparing for the first captive-carry flight of the Talon test vehicle on the Roc mother ship, marking a major step toward the start of hypersonic tests.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
U.S. officials outlined 11 capabilities that will be delivered to Kyiv over the next six to 24 months.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The National Reconnaissance Office on Sept. 28 increased its work with commercial space companies, awarding six study contracts for commercial radio frequency remote sensing.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Over the past two weeks, SpaceX has started selling two “high performance” user terminals.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
European countries are beefing up security around their oil and gas facilities after the European Union and the Danish and Swedish governments declared the damage caused to both Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea as sabotage.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Visiting South Korea’s Sacheon Air Base on Sept. 28 to observe a test flight of the first prototype KF-21, senior Indonesian defense officials said the advancement of the aircraft into flight testing was a “tangible manifestation” of the platform’s development.
Aircraft & Propulsion