Aerospace

Sensolus warns aerospace backlog is also an asset visibility problem. Its Airbus tracking work shows how missing tools, containers, and ground assets can slow production flow.

Singapore’s expanded Hellfire package adds weapons support for Apache operations. The deal also brings launcher reprogramming, software verification, spares, training, and test-equipment work into the sustainment chain.

Keysight and WIN are targeting a costly RF design failure. Their GaN MMIC workflow links simulation, layout verification, and evaluation-board design before foundry tapeout.

Skyryse and Robinson are adapting the R66 for defence autonomy. The partnership combines SkyOS software with an established rotorcraft production base for a Group 4 uncrewed aircraft system.

MBDA has compressed cruise-missile planning into a sharper software contest. FastTrack links AI-assisted routing, terrain data, radar modelling, weather inputs, and operator workflows to the strike-weapons chain.

Unimech has moved deeper into Europe’s aerospace manufacturing supply chain. Its FACC agreement now shifts into qualification, process validation, first-article approvals, and production-readiness work before serial output can begin.

China has given its next fighter a controlled public glimpse. The aircraft linked to the J-36 effort reinforces a deeper industrial race in stealth shaping, engines, software, thermal management, sensors, and combat-air production readiness.

South Korea’s Cheonryong missile has cleared a critical flight milestone. The powered FA-50 test moves the indigenous deep-strike weapon closer to KF-21 integration, serial production, and a more self-reliant Korean precision-weapons supply chain.

Raytheon has won a $1.1bn AIM-9X Block II production contract. The order reinforces pressure across short-range missile assembly, seekers, propulsion, energetics, software, and allied stockpile demand.

Australia’s MC-55A Peregrine has begun test flights from northern Darwin. The deployment links Gulfstream conversion, L3Harris mission systems, electronic warfare payloads, and northern sustainment infrastructure.