MilitaryDIU Awards $159 Million For Hermeus To Demonstrate High-Mach Flight And Payload ReleaseHermeus on May 28 said it has received a $159 million contract modification from the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to demonstrate high-Mach flight and high-speed payload carry and release…
MilitaryLow Radar Cross Section Of MQ-28 Ghost Bat Validated, Boeing SaysBoeing said on June 1 that it has validated the low Radar Cross Section (RCS) of the company’s MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone. “The MQ-28’s RCS reduces the range that enemy…
Global Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value IntelligenceAI in Aviation Faces Rising StakesGlobal Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value Intelligence (AVN) Mentioning the Pope and Elon Musk in the same sentence seems like the start of a bad joke, the kind that begins…
Global Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value IntelligenceQ&A: An Industry Veteran Discusses Today’s Challenges in the Aviation Engine MarketGlobal Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value Intelligence (AVN) Editor’s Note: This week, John Persinos interviewed Matt Eales, managing director of EAL Engine Services, a UK-based aviation company focused on engine…
AI & AutonomyHermeus’ Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 Aircraft Goes Supersonic In First For Unmanned FlightLess than three months after the first flight of the Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 unmanned aircraft, Hermeus on Tuesday said the jet-powered aircraft achieved supersonic speeds in its second flight, a first in…
MilitaryF-35 Program And Lockheed Martin To Finish F-35 PTMS Analysis Soon, As HASC Argues Block 4 “Underfunded”The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) and Lockheed Martin are undertaking a Power and Thermal Management System (PTMS) analysis to specify what systems the fighter will need to have between…
MilitaryBoeing, USAF Conduct Preliminary Design Review of LAM Pylon for B-1B, Company SaysBoeing engineers at the company’s Oklahoma City site recently completed a preliminary design review to put the Load Adaptable Modular (LAM) pylon on the U.S. Air Force B-1 bomber to carry…
MilitaryRedwire Says Awarded Large Drone Contract From NATO AllyRedwire Corp. on Tuesday said it received a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract from a NATO ally to deliver the company’s Penguin Mk3 unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Redwire said the contract is…