Aerospace
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L3Harris has secured a second customer for its AERIS X airborne early warning aircraft, broadening demand for a Global 6500-based approach to AEW&C.
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KAI has advanced Surion transmission localisation with assembly and installation work on a domestically developed main gearbox, pushing a core rotorcraft system further into flight-test territory.
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GPS interference is now a systemic risk to global operations. In this IN Defence perspective, Neil Cawse, CEO of Geotab, argues that businesses must treat satellite positioning as a contested signal and build resilience through detection, redundancy, and sensor fusion.
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Kawasaki’s unmanned-aircraft concepts add momentum to Japan’s future airpower plans, where autonomy, mission systems, and airframe production are converging.
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Poland has formed an industrial team for a sovereign defence telecommunications satellite. The programme links payloads, platform design, secure ground infrastructure, and cyber protection.
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The U.S. Navy has completed two JDAM LR demonstration flights. The milestone pushes a lower-cost powered standoff weapon closer to qualification and shipboard integration.
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SPEAR 3 remains central to Britain’s future air-launched strike inventory. Programme progress is closely tied to integration, qualification, and production planning.
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Aerospace electronics face tighter performance, lifecycle, and radiation resilience demands. Ross Turnbull of Swindon Silicon Systems argues ASICs give aircraft and spacecraft designers tighter control over latency, obsolescence, and hardening.
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H55 has delivered the first Adagio battery modules for Smartflyer’s SFX1. The handover moves the programme from component validation into aircraft-level integration work.
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Australia is retiring its C-27J Spartan fleet earlier than planned. The decision reshapes sustainment, support, and regional air-mobility planning.