Beijing has retaliated with new controls on critical mineral exports, targeting the American defense-industrial base as well as matching levies on U.S. imports.
Kratos Defense and Security recently completed the first flight of its stealthy uncrewed combat air vehicle Thanatos, proving out the aircraft’s basic design.
Turkey’s Baykar has completed a takeoff and landing of its Bayraktar TB3 uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) from the Anadolu amphibious assault ship (LHD).
A four-year-old concept to adapt uncrewed aircraft to role-play as adversaries during training missions is back in development after a two-year hiatus.
The additional orders come after the Air Force selected Anduril and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) for CCA Increment 1 prototypes in April.
As satellite operators turn to smaller, proliferated spacecraft to protect space-based capabilities, industry sees ground stations as a new target for attacks.
General Atomics AeroTec Systems has begun final assembly of the first wing for the Do228 NXT, four years after acquiring the program from Switzerland’s RUAG.
Left out of the first round of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, Lockheed Martin is now looking at cheaper, less capable designs for the next round.
