Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Tony Osborne
According to a list of aircraft published by the Dubai Airshow organizers, the aircraft is called the Calidus B-250 and reportedly is larger than the Embraer A-29 Super Tucano.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
Dassault, Thales and Safran were notified Oct. 25 of a €227 million ($266 million) fine connected to the sale of 60 Mirage 2000-5 fighters to Taiwan in 1992.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Vilnius is spending €110 million ($129 million) for two Nasams batteries, as well as a logistical support, maintenance and personnel training package following the system’s selection by the defense ministry last October.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
As the commercial satellite industry prepares to extend broadband access globally, government assistance likely will be required to prevent collisions.
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KELVIN HUGHES has contract to supply SharpEye navigation radars to prime contractor HHI for Philippine Navy Frigate Acquisition Project.

The U.S. Department of Defense plans to spend $6.97 billion on unmanned aircraft technology in 2018.

By Mark Carreau
Astronauts on Oct. 24 deployed the 50-kg. (110-lb.) Kestrel Eye IIM satellite on a demonstration mission from the International Space Station (ISS).
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LONGBOW LLC has $7.53m U.S. Army contract for Hellfire engineering services.

Apparently undaunted by last week’s unprecedented announcement of a tie-up between Airbus and Canada’s Bombardier over the C Series airliner, Boeing Chairman, President And CEO Dennis Muilenburg says these are “not actions that change our game plan.

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Northrop CEO Wes Bush says the company doesn’t see the business case to compete for the Navy’s aerial tanking drone.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett, Kim Minseok
South Korea is likely to pass up a chance at economizing on support costs by linking requirements for maritime patrollers and airborne early warning aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
A fuel-efficient airliner concept developed within NASA that shows promise as an early application of turboelectric propulsion is to undergo a comprehensive external evaluation by Aurora Flight Sciences.

By Guy Norris
Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg concedes more work on the tanker remains, but insists the biggest problems are behind the company.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
The consortium of MBDA and Saab that builds the Taurus KEPD 350 bunker-busting missile thinks a proposed compact version probably could fit in the weapon bays of Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett, Kim Minseok
South Korean engineers are, at least nominally, taking the lead in developing onboard systems for the KF-X. Whether they are always in fact leading is not so certain, since many foreign companies have been hired to assist.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Bulgarian media reports say pilots refused to undertake training flights on Oct. 24 over concerns about safety and additional delays to the country’s plans to replace the country’s Soviet-era fighters with Western-built equipment.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Meetings in January will decide “on the way to handle the [fighter] engine business," TAI's CEO says.
Defense and Space

LOCKHEED MARTIN rolled first of four C-130J-30 military transports for France out of the paint shop in French Air Force livery.

Wednesday morning the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee will discuss “The Commercial Satellite Industry: What’s Up and What’s on the Horizon,” with witnesses from SpaceX, ViaSat and OneWeb.

Applied Defense Solutions Inc., Columbia, Maryland, has been awarded a $7,370,513 firm-fixed-price modification (P00009) for space situational awareness services.

AFwerX Vegas will be a place where companies and start-ups with technologies applicable to the service’s core military missions can engage with the Air Force outside of the traditional acquisition process.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
A fuel-efficient airliner concept developed within NASA that shows promise as an early application of turboelectric propulsion is to undergo a comprehensive external evaluation by Aurora Flight Sciences.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Arconic on Oct. 23 named Charles “Chip” Blankenship as its next CEO, effective Jan. 15.
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U.S. Air Force F-35 pilots have reported tingling fingers and other symptoms that indicate hypoxia five separate times since flights resumed at Luke AFB, Arizona.
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