Business Wire
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) has opened a United Kingdom office to directly support current and future programmes for the UK Ministry of Defence. The office expands Redwire’s European footprint and positions the company closer to UK defence customers and contracts.
Wall Street Journal
• Shelby Holliday
By Wall Street Journal: Watch how this small chopper flown inside a C-130 transport plane was used to rescue the U.S. aviator trapped in Iran after his F-15 was shot down.
FlightGlobal
• Ryan Finnerty
By FlightGlobal: Three contenders advanced in the Flight School Next effort, which seeks to revamp the army’s basic rotary-wing instruction course, including by replacing Airbus Helicopters UH-72A Lakotas as the service’s primary trainer helicopter.
Reuters
• John Irish, Tom Balmforth
By Reuters: Russian satellites have made dozens of detailed imagery surveys of military facilities and critical sites across the Middle East to help Iran strike U.S.
Bloomberg
• Anthony Capaccio
By Bloomberg: Lockheed Martin Corp.’s new AIM-260 air-to-air missile program received a $2 billion boost in the Trump administration’s proposed budget, a sign the classified weapon could see accelerated production and be deployed soon.
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
By Air Data News: South Korea has agreed to transfer one of the six KF-21 Boramae prototypes to Indonesia, advancing the long-delayed joint fighter program between the two countries as the aircraft nears the end of its development phase.
FlightGlobal
• Ryan Finnerty
By FlightGlobal: Having previously demonstrated a flight endurance of more than 75h, the uncrewed K1000ULE is meant as an airborne communications retransmission node or a platform for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
By AeroTime: An AH-64E Apache launched an Anduril Altius 700 medium-range drone at Yuma Proving Ground in the first launched effect deployment from the attack helicopter.
FlightGlobal
• Greg Waldron
Reuters
• Michael Kahn, Supantha Mukherjee, Tom Balmforth
The Air Current
• Carter Johnston
