In Pictures: Top Aerospace & Defense Stories, Feb. 13, 2023

The X-62A demonstrated “AI agents” developed by EpiSci, PhysicsAI, Shield AI and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

Credit: DARPA

The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for a prototype small high-frequency direction-finding antenna that it could mount on a fixed-wing aircraft.

Credit: U.S. Army

Dubai has chosen the initial locations and designs for a vertiport network that is expected to be operational in 2026.

Credit: Volocopter

The DRDO chairman discusses India's plans to increase exports and for development of a future fighter aircraft, missile defense systems and UAS.

Credit: India's Defense Research and Development Organization

Lockheed Martin is not giving up on its bid to sell the F-21, a specialized F-16 variant, to the Indian Air Force.

Credit: Jen DiMascio/AW&ST

The first U.S. surveillance fleet with a craft beer as a namesake inherits a counter-drug spy mission flown by a four-decade-old string of modified turboprops.

Credit: U.S. Air Force

Axiom Space’s second four-person private astronaut mission to the International Space Station will include two astronauts from Saudi Arabia.

Credit: Axiom Space

The Indian Finance Minister last week unveiled the nation’s budget,earmarking a 44% hike in non-salary revenue outlays for defense operations and sustainment.

Credit: Money Sharma / AFP / Getty Images

India’s state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. could eventually be awarded the project to manufacture Naval Utility Helicopters.

Credit: Indian Navy