Stratolaunch’s six-engine Roc carrier aircraft returned to the air on April 29, just more than two years after making its flight debut in 2019, with a 3-hr., 14-min. test sortie from the company’s Mojave Air & Space Port facility in California.

The U.S. Air Force has started canvassing industry for interest in reactivating the external hardpoints on the B-1B fleet, with integration of non-nuclear hypersonic missiles likely to follow.

The Northern Ireland-based business of Spirit AeroSystems has added research, development and consultancy firm Intrepid Minds Robotics to its team developing the UK’s Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft demonstrator.

Weapons and sensors for 12 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. MQ-9B Sky Guardians for a previously announced potential sale to Australia have been confirmed by a required U.S. government agency notification.

Turkey’s Roketsan has developed a new glide bomb to be used with the Baykar Makina’s Akinci twin-engine medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system.

A civilian photographer captured the photo in 2018 as the F/A-18F with the markings of VX-31 air test and evaluation squadron landed at Point Mugu, California. 

Germany has begun upgrading its Eurofighters to allow the carriage of MBDA’s Meteor beyond-visual-range, air-to-air missile.

The U.S. Army is scheduled to conduct the fourth Precision Strike Missile test in mid-May at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.