Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Tony Osborne
Egypt has reportedly opted to buy a fleet of AW149 twin-engine utility helos to meet its requirements for a ship-borne tactical transport and assault helo.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 sample return mission to the asteroid Ryugu has completed a low-altitude surveillance operation over the site where it dropped an explosive charge in early April to expose subsurface material for a planned second attempt to land and gather soil and rock.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
A Japanese-U.S. partnership has unveiled a vision for launching a family of stratospheric, solar-powered UAS to provide mobile comm and remote sensing services.

By Bradley Perrett, Guy Norris
The first test flight of a privately developed Chinese reusable space launcher hurled an experimental hypersonic waverider vehicle to a speed faster than 2,800 mph on April 23.
Space

BOEING delivered the 8th KC-46 tanker to McConnell AFB April 20.

On Tuesday afternoon in Washington, the Center for Strategic and International Studies hosts a discussion on the “Global Counterspace Landscape.”

Northrop Grumman Technical Services, Herndon, Virginia, has been awarded a $44,395,362 modification (P00040) to previously awarded contract FA8540-12-C-0004 for the production of electronic attack pods.

The security squad protecting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now is carrying a gun-like system that can disrupt the communication systems of s dxe443uspicious drones.

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $362.7m U.S. Army contract for Multiple Launch Rocket System launchers, other equipment and repair services.

By Michael Bruno
Northrop on April 24 reported first-quarter 2019 sales increased 22% to $8.2 billion from $6.7 billion in the first quarter of 2018.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick, Lee Hudson
The U.S. Army has awarded five other transaction authority prototype agreements for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft two months ahead of schedule.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
A six-year-old service life extension program for F-16s is transitioning from the proof-kit stage to the full production phase at Hill AFB, Utah.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
The U.S. Department of Transportation is creating an Office of Spaceports and a new research enterprise focused on commercial space, safety and innovation.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
Boeing has awarded L3 Commercial Aviation a contract to supply a traffic alert and collision avoidance (TCAS) processor and flight-data recorder for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray unmanned refueling tanker.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
Grand Sky Business and Aviation Park near Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Harris Corporation have unveiled a 100-mi.-long “super corridor” that supports flights of UAS BVLOS of their operators.

By Tony Osborne
Turkish defense exports have increased by 20% compared to 2017, according to figures released by the country’s defense materiel agency, SSB.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The head of Britain’s Defense Safety Authority has called on the defense ministry to make better use of simulation to train UAV crews after a spate of accidents involving Thales’ Watchkeeper.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
Garmin International on April 24 announced the recent first flight milestone of a Northrop F-5 fighter equipped with its G3000 integrated avionics suite.
Defense and Space

Austria’s Salzburg Airport will be closed for operations April 24-May 28 to undergo a renovation of its 59-year-old, 2,750-m-long runway.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
DARPA plans an industry day on May 22 in Washington to brief companies interested in bidding to take over from SSL as the spacecraft provider and operator for its Robotic Servicing of Geostationary Satellites program.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin formally opened a new final assembly line for the F-16 in Greenville, South Carolina, on April 23.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
A U.S. grand jury has charged a U.S. citizen of Chinese descent and his relative in China with theft of GE tech for gas and steam turbines, including know-how applicable to aviation.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Ghana has formally launched the world’s largest medical drone delivery service, operated by Zipline and covering the entire country.
Business Aviation

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Mars Insight mission spacecraft has measured and recorded its first “marsquake,” the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported April 23.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX is shifting the landing site for its next Falcon 9 rocket from a Cape Canaveral AFS ground pad to a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Defense and Space