Aerospace

  • Keysight and WIN put GaN MMIC risk into the design flow

    Keysight and WIN put GaN MMIC risk into the design flow

    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.

  • SkyOS meets the helicopter factory in Group 4 UAS push

    SkyOS meets the helicopter factory in Group 4 UAS push

    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 FastTrack moves missile advantage into software

    MBDA FastTrack moves missile advantage into software

    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’s FACC win turns aerospace ambition into qualification work

    Unimech’s FACC win turns aerospace ambition into qualification work

    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’s sixth-generation fighter glimpse sharpens the combat-air race

    China’s sixth-generation fighter glimpse sharpens the combat-air race

    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.

  • Cheonryong gives South Korea’s strike industry its next test

    Cheonryong gives South Korea’s strike industry its next test

    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.

  • Cheonryong gives South Korea’s strike industry its next test

    Raytheon’s $1.1bn Sidewinder deal is a factory test

    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.

  • China’s sixth-generation fighter glimpse sharpens the combat-air race

    Australia pushes Peregrine north for first operational tests

    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.

  • SkyOS meets the helicopter factory in Group 4 UAS push

    Japan’s drone surge eyes a car factory

    Anduril is exploring Nissan’s Oppama plant for Japanese drone production. The talks bring automotive capacity, workforce conversion, autonomous systems, and local defence manufacturing into the same industrial frame.

  • Affordable strike now needs engine factories

    Affordable strike now needs engine factories

    Kratos is putting propulsion factories behind affordable strike ambitions now. The Spartan turbojet ramp highlights engines as a production bottleneck for missiles, loitering munitions, and autonomous systems.