In Pictures: Top Aerospace & Defense Stories, June. 06 2023

June 07, 2023

Air Forces In Focus: Royal Australian Air Force

Australia operates one of the most modern air forces in the world and has the fourth-largest military aircraft fleet in the Asia-Pacific region.

Barnes To Buy MB Aerospace In Another Engine Acquisition

Credit: MB Aerospace.

British multi-industrial provider Barnes is buying engine components specialist MB Aerospace in a deal worth $740 million, adding another major engine-related tie-up to a list that is drawing increasing attention to the sector’s importance.

L3Harris, Northrop Win AFRL Work To Link To Multiple Constellations

Credit: L3Harris.

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded contracts to L3Harris Technologies and Northrop Grumman to develop communications systems that can connect airborne and ground terminals to multiple commercial and military satellite constellations.

Lockheed Picks GE To Power LMXT As It Presses For Tanker Competition

Credit: Lockheed Martin.

Lockheed Martin is bolstering its case to the U.S. Air Force that the service should hold a competition for an interim follow-on tanker after Boeing KC-46 deliveries are completed, announcing it will use the GE Aerospace CF6 to power its LMXT should the Airbus A330-based aircraft be built for the service.

Canadian Special Operations Seeks To Lease High-Altitude UAS

Canada’s small commando force plans to lease the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) services of a high-altitude, long-endurance uncrewed aircraft system (UAS).

Moya Assembling Uncrewed Cargo eVTOL Prototype

Credit: Moya Aero.

Brazilian startup Moya Aero has begun assembling a near-full-scale prototype of its planned electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) uncrewed cargo aircraft. First flight is planned for late this year at Fazenda Maristela Airport, 35 mi. from the company’s base at Sao Jose dos Campos.

Leonardo Unveils Redesigned Hero Rotary-Wing Uncrewed Aircraft System

Credit: Leonardo.

Leonardo Helicopters has unveiled a redesigned Hero rotary-wing uncrewed aircraft system (RWUAS), with the configuration designed for naval operations.

Iran Reveals First Maneuvering Hypersonic Missile

Credit: Iranian News Agency.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unveiled a ballistic missile on June 6 with a powered, maneuvering reentry vehicle that it claims can reach targets in Israel at speeds up to Mach 15.

SpaceX Cargo Mission Docks At Space Station

SpaceX’s 28th NASA-contracted Cargo Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) docked autonomously to the seven-person orbital lab’s U.S. segment Harmony module early June 6.

Leonardo unveils redesigned Hero rotary-wing uncrewed aircraft system and L3Harris, Northrop win AFRL work to link to multiple constellations. Take a look at these and more in our daily roundup of aerospace & defense news.

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