Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Belgium’s future fighter program has been thrown into turmoil after it emerged that cheaper options to extend the life of the country’s F-16s had been hidden.

Drone data provider Skycatch and manufacturer DJI are to deliver a fleet of 1,000 small UAVs to Komatsu Smart Construction to map and model job sites.

More than 80% of leading aerospace and defense company executives expect to see AI systems working alongside their human employees in just the next few years.

L3 KEO has $13.4m U.S. Navy contract for universal modular masts for Virginia-class subs.

The Program Dossier on the Eurofighter Typhoon that appeared in the March 21 edition inadvertently omitted a section on Austria.

BOEING has $8m U.S. Air Force contract for F-15 simulators contractor logistics support.

Future 5G wireless networks could provide a way to detect illicit drones.

View the Program Dossier: Eurofighter Typhoon in PDF format.

U.S. Army tests of a vehicle-mounted high-energy laser in Europe have showcased its capability against drones.

The pilot of a Hawker Hunter jet that crashed during aerobatic maneuvers at the Shoreham Airshow, killing 11 people on the ground, will face criminal charges.

Germany’s Lange Research Aviation is developing a fuel-cell-powered surveillance aircraft with 40 hr. endurance when flown unmanned.

The Pentagon’s under secretary of defense for research and engineering wants to bring particle-beam weapons back into vogue.

Britain has begun initial studies for a low-cost unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has declassified details of an air raid on a nuclear facility in Syria 11 years ago.

The threat from swarms of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) will emerge much sooner than the military believes, a report for the U.S. Army says.

NASA is eyeing a late 2022 mission to demonstrate whether a future asteroid on a collision course with the Earth could be deflected with a blow from a well-guided spacecraft.

Slovakia’s flying-car developer Aeromobil has unveiled its concept for an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi.

The Finnish Air Force has carried out live firings of Lockheed Martin’s Jassm as part of the weapon’s integration onto Helsinki’s F-18 Hornets.

U.S. startup Dorsal Aircraft plans to make intermodal shipping containers an integral part of an aircraft’s structure.

The RAAF has achieved initial operational capability with the Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patroller, beating its target by five months.

The Philippines is sticking by an order for two Indonesian Aerospace C212 light transport aircraft, despite a three-year delay.

AEROVIRONMENT INC. has $9m U.S. Army contract for RQ-20B Puma AE II M3/M4 systems and support for Egypt.

LinQuest Corp., Colorado Springs, has been awarded a $99,200,000 single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) services support.

On Tuesday morning U.S. Strategic Command chief Gen. John Hyten testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the fiscal 2019 budget request.

Boeing is about to kick off an exhaustive effort to transition the U.S. Navy’s carrier air wing to the “Block III” Super Hornet.