Aerospace

  • Storm Fighter opens a new UK combat-air production race

    Storm Fighter opens a new UK combat-air production race

    Storm Fighter opens Britain’s next major autonomous combat-air production programme. The initiative will test whether UK industry can combine affordable airframes, electronic warfare, propulsion, autonomy, and weapons integration at useful scale.

  • ESA carries trusted test data from factory to orbit

    ESA carries trusted test data from factory to orbit

    Keysight will lead Europe’s blockchain-enabled non-terrestrial network assurance programme research. The project will connect manufacturing and calibration records with operational telemetry, anomaly detection, secure data exchange, and an eventual in-orbit demonstration.

  • Storm Fighter opens a new UK combat-air production race

    Quadriga leaves assembly for the evidence phase

    Germany’s first Quadriga Eurofighter has successfully entered its flight-acceptance campaign. The sortie begins a programme of systems, software, quality, and performance verification that will influence delivery efficiency across the remaining 37 aircraft.

  • Three SMEs enter Britain’s interceptor production race

    Three SMEs enter Britain’s interceptor production race

    Britain has backed three companies to develop affordable drone interceptors. Their designs must combine credible engagement performance with scalable manufacture, resilient components, practical launchers, rapid testing, manageable storage, and sustainable replacement rates.

  • Japan puts interceptor drones on a three-month clock

    Japan puts interceptor drones on a three-month clock

    Japan has selected Terra Drone for rapid domestic interceptor trials. The programme will test whether an emerging design can combine autonomous engagement, maritime operation, dependable communications, and production economics suitable for larger procurement.

  • South Korea loads Global 6500 with stand-off jamming

    South Korea loads Global 6500 with stand-off jamming

    South Korea has selected two Global 6500 aircraft for jamming. Their conversion will require extensive structural, electronic, thermal, software, certification, and support work across a developing domestic special-mission supply chain.

  • Storm Fighter opens a new UK combat-air production race

    L3Harris puts missile tracking onto a satellite production line

    L3Harris will produce eighteen satellites for America’s missile-tracking constellation network. The $955 million award increases demand for infrared payloads, processors, test facilities, and space-qualified components.

  • Bliksem EXO gives Europe an interceptor production challenge

    Bliksem EXO gives Europe an interceptor production challenge

    Five European companies have formed an exo-atmospheric interceptor development consortium. Bliksem EXO is intended to close Europe’s upper-layer ballistic missile defence gap.

  • Helsing brings HX-2 volume production to West Virginia

    Helsing brings HX-2 volume production to West Virginia

    Helsing will manufacture HX-2 strike drones at scale in America. Its West Virginia facility is intended to exceed 2,000 completed systems each month.

  • Iridium shrinks assured PNT into an eight-millimetre chip

    Iridium shrinks assured PNT into an eight-millimetre chip

    Iridium has released an eight-millimetre chip for assured satellite navigation. Manufacturers can now embed an independent source of trusted position and timing into smaller equipment.