Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Steve Trimble
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has finalized contracts with Japan’s MOD to enter the next phase of development of a new hypersonic weapons portfolo.
Missile Defense & Weapons

Ben Unglesbee
Aerospace specialist Incora’s bankruptcy serves as a stark reminder of how closely supply chains are tied to financial fates throughout an ecosystem.
Supply Chain

By Chen Chuanren
Indonesia is considering acquiring more secondhand Mirage 2000s from the United Arab Emirates as stop-gap fighters as it waits for its new Dassault Rafale Cs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Collins Aerospace says its new Enhanced Power and Cooling System for the Lockheed Martin F-35 will achieve Technology Readiness Level 6 this year.
Paris Air Show

By Steve Trimble
The agreement signed at the Paris Air Show between PBS Group and Ukraine’s Ivchenko-Progress launches joint development of the AI-PBS 350 turbojet engine.
Paris Air Show

By Tony Osborne
Safran Helicopter Engines has validated the eco-mode hybrid propulsion system destined for Airbus’ Racer high-speed helicopter demonstrator.
Paris Air Show

By Graham Warwick
The next-generation Hamadori flying-boat uncrewed aircraft has a twin-hull design.
Emerging Technologies

By Steve Trimble
Finnish manufacturer Patria confirmed a promised role in the Lockheed Martin F-35 program at Paris Air Show.
Paris Air Show

By Tony Osborne
European missile manufacturer MBDA's Orchestrike technology will allow multiple weapons to communicate their status and position to each other­.
Paris Air Show

By Steve Trimble
China’s state-owned arms exporter CATIC unveiled a new and more powerful variant of the Wing Loong series UAS systems at the Paris Air Show.
Paris Air Show

By Ben Goldstein
Archer is displaying its Midnight electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft at the Paris Air Show.
Paris Air Show

By Brian Everstine
Boeing's defense and space CEO says ahead of the Paris Air Show that it is "absolutely" committed to the CST-100 Starliner crewed capsule, despite new problems.
Space

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Wright Electric has produced 1 megawatt of shaft power in tests of an electric motor-generator under development to power commercial aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
German hydrogen-electric propulsion pioneer H2Fly has unveiled its next generation of fuel cell.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
Boeing Defense and Space CEO Ted Colbert told reporters ahead of the Paris Air Show on June 18 that the second quarter will look like the earnings of the first.
Paris Air Show

By Guy Norris
The first version of the Electron rocket modified for use as a booster for hypersonic and suborbital flight tests launched successfully on June 17.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Turkish Aerospace has unveiled a full-scale mockup of its proposed T925 11.5-metric-ton heavy rotorcraft at the Paris Air Show.
Paris Air Show

By Tony Osborne
Embraer’s Eve Air Mobility eVTOL aircraft will be the launch customer for the electric motors that emerge from the Nidec Aerospace JV.
Paris Air Show

By Guy Norris
Collins Aerospace has met a key milestone on the path toward development of the Hybrid-Electric Propulsion flight demonstrator.
Paris Air Show

By Sean Broderick
Dubbed "control tower," the new system automatically provides key updates on a part or subassembly's progress in Spirit AeroSystems' supply chain.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
The selection of Saab's Arexis electronic-warfare suite is part of an initial effort to add a SEAD/DEAD and EW capability to the Eurofighter.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Garrett Reim
Vast has selected Impulse Space’s Saiph thrusters for its Haven-1 Space Station.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has entered no exchange of funds Space Act Agreement partnerships with seven companies that are intended to advance future human spaceflight objectives.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The Defense Production Act-enabled funding will increase production of high purity aluminum at an Arconic smelting plant in Davenport, Iowa.
Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
Germany’s defense procurement office has not signed a contract yet, but the announcement appears to end a four-way competition.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare