Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
The uncrewed fighter has flown alongside crewed F-35 and F-15E jets as the US Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme accelerates toward production. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) delivered a new FQ-42 Vengeance to Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, on 18 September, where it will continue test and evaluation operations with the US Air Force’s […]
France’s Aeronautical Maintenance Directorate has placed a follow-on order for four two-drone Capa-X systems for the Navy and Army, after a land and sea evaluation campaign found the uncrewed aircraft met the requirements of a light tactical drone programme. FRANCE ORDERS EIGHT MORE AIRBUS CAPA-X DRONES FOR NAVY AND ARMY The French Aeronautical Maintenance
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The Nasdaq-listed defence contractor has been awarded an Other Transaction Agreement by the US Space Force to develop scalable sensor technology for detecting and tracking fast-moving threats, part of the service’s space superiority and space control effort. SPACE FORCE TURNS TO LEONARDO DRS FOR SENSOR PROTOTYPE WORK Leonardo DRS has been awarded an Other
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Collins Aerospace has completed altitude testing of the Enhanced Power and Cooling System, its next-generation power and thermal management system for the F-35. The system was run for several days at mission-representative power levels and pushed to operational limits across a range of altitudes. THERMAL MARGIN AS THE LIMITING FACTOR Collins Aerospace, an RTX
A GE Aerospace nozzle designed in the early 1990s to explore fighter agility, flown on a modified F-16 across 95 sorties and then shelved, has been retrieved, refurbished and integrated with an F110-GE-129E engine to give Shield AI’s X-BAT the ability to take off and land vertically. A QUESTION ABOUT ENGINES, ASKED THIRTY YEARS AGO
GE Aerospace and Kratos have announced that their GEK800 engine has received the United States military type designation F143-ZZ-100 and won an Engineering, Manufacturing and Development contract with the US Air Force as a second-source propulsion system for the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile. A DESIGNATION AND A DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT TOGETHER GE Aerospace and Kratos
Northrop Grumman and Boeing have demonstrated enhanced interoperability between the uncrewed MQ-4C Triton and the crewed P-8A Poseidon in a jointly funded technology demonstration, with Triton’s system responding to a request from the Poseidon by using AI algorithms to collect, process and share maritime intelligence across a standardised interface. A REQUEST SENT BETWEEN SYSTEMS RATHER
Leonardo has completed its involvement in the National Quantum Science and Technology Institute, an Italian national programme funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and NextGenerationEU. The company committed 32 personnel across Genoa, Rome and Florence to work spanning quantum architectures, photonic technologies, device integration and demonstrator modelling. A NATIONAL PROGRAMME STRUCTURED AROUND SPOKES
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has completed construction of its Indiana Payload Integration Facility at Crane, a 68,000-square-foot purpose-built site able to integrate, test and prepare up to six experimental hypersonic payloads simultaneously in support of programmes including the Multi-Service Advanced Capabilities Hypersonic Testbed. SIX PAYLOADS IN PARALLEL, BUILT TO RAISE TEST CADENCE Kratos
Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first NH90 Standard 2 to the French Armament General Directorate, a variant of the NH90 TTH developed specifically for special operations. France has ordered 18 aircraft for delivery by mid-2029, to be operated by the French Army Aviation special forces squadron at Pau, with Spain joining the programme in December
