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

Credit: German Federal Ministry of Defence.

Germany is one of the key members of NATO and this week is hosting one of the organization’s largest military exercises.

Credit: Orbex.

European flagship launch service company Arianespace has signed an agreement with British startup Orbex to explore a potential partnership for small satellite launch services. 

Credit: Datablanket.

Omer Bar-Yohay has stepped down as president of AutoFlight to focus on a firefighting data startup he co-founded before joining the Chinese/European electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) company in April 2022.

Credit: U.S. Army.

The U.S. Army is set to test its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) in the near future as it looks to keep the program on schedule for delivery by year’s end, the service’s top official says.

Credit: Spire.

Spire Global launched a pair of 6U cubesats with laser communications payloads aboard the SpaceX Transporter-8 mission on June 12.

Credit: Blighter Surveillance Systems.

Raytheon has announced the delivery of the fourth 10-kW-class, high-energy laser weapon for countering uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) to the U.S. Air Force. 

Credit: CAE.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded CAE a contract to conduct its new helicopter pilot training program, with the company charged with training student pilots on its fleet of Bell 505 Jet Ranger X aircraft.

Credit: NASA.

America’s aerospace dominance was built, in large part, on technology advances tested over the past eight decades through the X-plane experimental aircraft, spaceplane and missile program.

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Lockheed Martin and New York-headquartered chip-maker GlobalFoundries (GF) announced on June 12 that they will collaborate strategically on domestic semiconductor manufacturing, aiming to boost the resiliency of microelectronics supply chains for national security systems.