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Castelion announced Oct. 24 it has received multiple contracts to integrate its Blackbeard hypersonic weapon system onto existing U.S. Army and Navy platforms.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

HADES to deploy next year amid uncertainty regarding overall fleet size.

The U.S. Army has a demonstration planned for next year near Hawaii in which the service will launch almost 200 balloons and other high-altitude systems.

Hybrid Air Vehicles, developer of the Airlander 10 hybrid airship, says it has secured reservations for three aircraft for military use.

From deep strike to launched effects, the U.S. Army wants to field new weapons quickly.

The rising popularity of Collaborative Combat Aircraft has spread to the U.S. Army, which is now considering the reusable systems to augment crewed rotorcraft.

As interest grows in rotating detonation engines for hypersonic flight, a startup specialist in the tech says it will receive backing from Lockheed Martin.

The U.S. Army and Bell are pushing to speed up fielding of the MV-75 tiltrotor by shifting acquisition dates, moving up funding and designing initial aircraft.

The U.S. Army plans to match the 18-month acceleration for the schedule to field the baseline version of the Bell MV-75 tiltrotor.

Cummings Aerospace has announced a 60-km range estimate for the 3D-printed Hellhound S3, a turbojet-powered, subsonic loitering munition and air interceptor.

The companies producing the highly in-demand Patriot PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhanced interceptor are continuing to bulk up their production capacity.

Two companies have unveiled starkly different approaches to meeting the U.S. Army’s pending requirement for a Low-Altitude Stalk and Strike Ordnance system.

The U.S. Army will start executing within a month a fielding plan for acquiring and delivering Launched Effects-Short Range air vehicles.

Ukraine’s ability to take down Russian drones is largely limited by the availability of systems to engage them, rather than the technology to do so, a senior U.S. Army air defense official says.

A year after the U.S. Army appeared to turn its back on a program to develop a future lower-tier missile interceptor, the program may be back on the agenda.

Boeing is progressing on its design of an all-new missile for the U.S. Army's Indirect Fire Protection Capability system ahead of an expected downselect next year.

Collaborative Combat Aircraft may soon be coming to the U.S. Army’s acquisition plans.

Boeing and Leonardo are teaming up to compete for the U.S. Army’s future helicopter training program to replace the service’s current UH-72 Lakota fleet.

The U.S. Army is grappling with the challenge of compressing a nine-year timeline for delivering the first operational unit of MV-75s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft.

Sikorsky has modified an ex-U.S. Army UH-60L Black Hawk into a flight demonstrator for the proposed U-Hawk uncrewed utility aircraft.

Boeing has unveiled a large, high-speed and vertical take-off-and-landing (VTOL), uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) for the U.S. Army.

Rafael has unveiled a jet-powered missile variant of the Spike family of loitering munitions on the eve of the Association of U.S. Army’s annual conference.

Sikorsky expects the award for the 11th, and likely final, UH-60 Black Hawk order from the U.S. Army in late 2026 as the service reviews aviation plans.

The U.S. Army recently completed initial operational test and evaluation of its Lockheed Martin-made Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) Increment 1.