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Brazilian Air Force gearing up for KC-390’s service entry this summer. Multi-role aircraft can drop paratroopers, fight fires and refuel aircraft.

Having nearly finished its widebody replacement, the airline is turning attention to its narrowbody fleet.

Ryanair tries its hand at consolidation, a move that shows how much the airline’s strategy is changing.

Utility of basic position reporting, bandwidth requirements and the need to coordinate distress responses with search-and-rescue organizations are some issues.

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Readers propose UAS for firefighting; keeping a veiled nuclear stance and recommend that nascent scientists be openminded.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Ted Fordyce has been promoted to Elbit Systems of America vice president for Washington operations.

Boeing is about to start an exhaustive effort to transition the U.S. Navy’s carrier air wing to the new-and-improved Block III Super Hornet.

Yates Electrospace is still pursuing ever-higher electric-aircraft speeds, but its first product is a disposable cargo glider.

U.S. Marines, with the Army, are testing responsive resupply of troops in the field using unmanned aircraft of different sizes and capabilities.

UK’s new ‘Lanca’ UCAV; Australia’s naval aviation fleet takes shape; GPS OCX enters new software development phase; Stratcom head assesses plutonium pit status.

Manufacturers diversify spacecraft and operating orbits to keep up with changing markets.

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As Europeans build autonomy in space, sharing satellite capacity in a secure network would create an independent communications system for government use.

The aerostructures subsector, responsible for providing airframers the largest subassemblies, could become a lot more intimate in the next few years.

The company aims to put 200 kg into orbit every 72 hr. Photo: Rocket Lab

Blue is aiming to compete for U.S. national security space launch business, putting it in direct competition with one of its first industry partners, ULA.

F-35Bs would be especially useful for Taiwan because China is able to rain air-to-surface, cruise and short-range ballistic missiles on the island’s runways.

With commercial aircraft programs at record production rates, aerostructures OEMs are looking for technologies to produce carbon-fiber components faster.

With the next-generation jets, Embraer looks to break into segments of the airline market to which it so far has not had access.

l“Trade wars are good and easy to win.” Thus tweeted President Donald Trump in early March. But for the jetliner industry, trade wars are a potentially toxic exogenous shock. Jetliners are uniquely vulnerable to retaliation, particularly from China.

As Spirit AeroSystems ramps up to unprecedented production rates, CEO looks ahead to additive manufacturing, composites, supersonic bizjets and air taxis.

Advanced Turboprop rebranding and certification test phase mark key milestones in GE’s strategic push into growing turboprop market.

Containerized cargo aircraft, swarm threat growing, 5G could track drones, triple-hybrid propulsion, and VTOL UAS hunt for fires.