Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

India hopes to expedite work on its much-delayed Intermediate Jet Trainer after resuming test flights of a modified version of the aircraft.

Australia has received the first of three Dassault Falcon 7X business jets that will re-equip the VIP squadron based at Canberra.

A test of abort thrusters destroyed the capsule that had returned from an unmanned test flight to the International Space Station.

A photographer captured a dramatic image of dark smoke rising from the southern tip of Cape Canaveral AFS.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $44.4m U.S. Air Force contract for the production of electronic attack pods.

A German military Global 5000 VIP transport suffered an avionics failure at Berlin-Schönefeld Airport that resulted in a crash landing April 16.

uAvionix, a developer and manufacturer of miniature avionics for communications, navigation and surveillance applications, says it is testing a prototype control radio for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and urban air mobility vehicles.

In a surprise move, Bell is offering a scaled-down development of its Model 525 commercial helicopter to meet the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance (FARA) requirement.

Nextant Aerospace said it successfully completed initial certification flight testing of the new Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) flight deck of U.S. Air Force T-1A Jayhawk twin-engine trainers.

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Citing traffic congestion in the capital, Manila, a startup has launched a helicopter ridesharing service in the Philippines.

After helping set an endurance record for multirotor small unmanned aircraft of more than 12 hr., the UK’s Intelligent Energy has launched a fuel-cell power unit for the commercial drone market.

The U.S. Army is implementing actions garnered from its aviation warfighting initiative.

Turkey is facing problems in acquiring certain spare parts for its F-16s as a result of undeclared sanctions imposed by the U.S.

A thermoplastic nanocomposite that rivals aluminum in performance, but at a lower weight, is to be commercialized by a new startup.

The real-world effectiveness of laser weapons is to be tested in a new laboratory inaugurated in Bordeauc, France, by European missile manufacturer MBDA.

Northrop Grumman’s 11th NASA-contracted Cygnus resupply mission capsule rendezvoused with the International Space Station (ISS) on schedule early April 19.

UK COMPETITION AND MARKETS AUTHORITY launched investigation into RHEINMETALL DEFENSE UK LTD.’s acquisition of BAE SYSTEMS GLOBAL COMBAT SYSTEMS LTD. to determine if it will result in “substantial lessening of competition” in any UK markets.

Arianespace has signed a contract with Synspective to launch the Japanese startup’s first synthetic aperture radar (SAR) demonstrator satellite in 2020 aboard a Vega launcher from Arianespace’s spaceport in French Guiana.

Over the next ten years, 307 new-build Western-designed aircraft preforming C4ISR missions will enter military service, and 144 will be retired.

The USAF will hire a new chief technology officer to oversee its $2.8 billion science and tech investments and act as a design agent.

Bell says it will use its Ozark, Alabama, facility for final assembly of the Bell 407 single-engine light helicopter should the aircraft be selected for the U.S. Navy’s TH-XX Advanced Helicopter Trainer requirement.

Bell Helicopter is hovering high in China after winning orders for more than 200 rotorcraft over the last couple of years.

The U.S. Army will receive 30 virtual reality systems at Fort Rucker, Alabama, over the course of about a year to see if the cutting-edge technology can produce more capable pilots.

The USAF will appoint a general officer to lead a new headquarters-level directorate charged with focusing on establishing superiority in the electromagnetic spectrum.