Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Steve Trimble
The Valkyrie, a jet-powered, $4 million class attack uncrewed aircraft system, represents a new product class for the Hivemind autonomy technology.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Aeronautics' enclosed payload bay marks a departure from the exposed payload stations under the nose of previous versions of the Orbiter series.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The electric lift-augmenting slats (ELAS) are expected to halve takeoff and landing distances.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The Hungarian government is to provide Rolls-Royce with $5 million over 3 years to support research and development of electric and hybrid-electric aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Rafael announced that it “has developed” the counter-hypersonic interceptor, which may imply that it has already been tested.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s LTA Research is preparing to begin outdoor flight tests of its Pathfinder 1 large rigid airship.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
United Airlines and Eve Air Mobility have partnered to introduce urban air mobility services in San Francisco.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has quickly deployed an undisclosed number of F-22s to the Middle East amid ongoing threatening behavior by Russia aircraft over Syria.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army’s analysis of alternatives for its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft is underway.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Kuwait has finalized a deal to acquire the Turkish-developed Baykar Bayraktar TB2 armed uncrewed aircraft system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The fly-off will gather data for the U.S. Army to select a new radar to replace the Lynx synthetic aperture radar payload for the “M25” version of the MQ-1C.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Hungary has joined the Czech Republic and Poland in the protection of Slovakia’s airspace.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Specter Aerospace, formerly known as FGC Plasma Solutions, says a hypersonic demonstrator vehicle powered with plasma-assisted combustion will fly in two years.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
Turgis & Gaillard plans to achieve first flight by the end of this year and complete a self-funded series of airworthiness testing in 2025.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Mark Carreau
The research findings back the premise that most, if not all, Earth water originated through asteroid collisions during the Solar System’s planet-forming era.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Indonesia's acquisition of 12 Dassault Mirage 2000-5 aircraft from Qatar is reportedly worth $734.5 million.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK's crewed, supersonic, low-observable demonstrator will use the Eurojet EJ200 engine from the Eurofighter Typhoon.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The goals of the Heavy VTOL (HVTOL) program exceed the requirements of the Marine Corps’ ongoing Medium Unmanned Logistics System - Air (MULS-A) competition.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Irene Klotz
The company is developing a 62-ft. (19-m), two-stage rocket to deliver satellites weighing up to 397 lb. into low Earth orbit.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Omer Bar-Yohay has stepped down as president of AutoFlight to focus on a firefighting data startup he co-founded.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army is set to test its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon in the near future.
Missile Defense & Weapons

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

By Brian Everstine
A U.S. special operations helicopter crashed in northeastern Syria on June 11, injuring 22 troops, U.S. Central Command says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon on June 13 announced a new batch of aid being surged to Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon's Tiger Team has a series of recommendations to improve the process of foreign military sales.
Budget, Policy & Operations