Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng’s AeroHT division has revealed it is developing the Land Aircraft Carrier, a modular drive/fly design.

IAI is maintaining commitments to its international customers of Israeli weapon systems despite prioritizing Israeli military needs.

A small number of Ukrainian pilots have begun a tailored training program to learn how to fly the F-16 at a U.S. Air Force base in Arizona.

The global approach to MRO of the F-35 needs to be a model for other weapons as the Pentagon looks to co-develop and co-produce critical systems, the DOD says.

Japanese automaker Subaru has unveiled a concept for an eVTOL air mobility vehicle at the Japan Mobility Show 2023 in Tokyo.

After focusing exclusively on eVTOL aircraft, the U.S. Air Force's Agility Prime program is expanding to fixed-wing types with the planned lease of a Pipistrel electric sport aircraft.

The U.S. has given Ukraine seven industrial-size 3D printers and related technical data packages so the nation’s military can print replacement parts.

The Pentagon’s first-ever defense industrial base policy will outline Defense Department efforts to bolster a stretched workforce and supply chain.

Archer Aviation has conducted the first uncrewed test flight of its Midnight electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.

Overair has announced an agreement to sell 20 of its electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles to South Korean helicopter operator HeliKorea.

A year and a half after private equity investors bought it, uAvionix has in turn bought Iris Automation, a provider of optical detect and avoid technology.

Europe’s space workforce grew by 8.2% in 2022 over the prior year, the Space Foundation says in a quarterly report on the state of the space industry.

Lockheed Martin has awarded Terran Orbital a contract to build 36 sat buses for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer Beta constellation

RTX leaders sought to snuff out financial concerns over its ongoing GTF engine problems Oct. 23 as they unveiled relatively expected financial results.

General Electric (GE) had a strong third quarter that exceeded Wall Street expectations with its aerospace business benefiting from robust aftermarket demand.

Competitors for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program have started the certification and installation process of the engine.

The QuickSounder is the first in a new generation of small, low-Earth-orbit satellites for weather and climate-change observations.

Canadian aerospace and defense training leader CAE will use proceeds from the sale to pay off debt and invest in its core training and simulation markets.

Boeing and Brisbane-based Ferra Engineering have agreed to extend their JDAM wing kit partnership through 2028.

Axiom Space is nearing completion of its Hab One pressure vessel.

The UK has been OK’d to purchase up to 3,000 Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles (JAGM) to equip its new Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters.

The Biden administration is standing up a technology center of excellence around Spokane, Washington.

Airbus and Northrop Grumman have teamed up to bid on the modernization of the UK’s Skynet military communications satellites.

Pakistan and Belarus have joined the China-led International Lunar Research Station program, according to the China National Space Administration.

The Pentagon is surging additional advanced air defense systems to the Middle East amid an increase in attacks on its forces in the region.