Aviation Today
• Frank Wolfe
The Marine Corps has taken delivery of six F-35B fighters so far without their radars, according to a program director. The service is awaiting Northrop Grumman’s delivery of the AN/APG-85, intended to replace the current APG-81 configuration.
Aviation Week
• Steve Trimble
By Aviation Week: The U.S. Air Force defined a 1,000-nm range goal for a future air-launched ballistic missile that will be developed with air-to-air and air-to-surface variants.
DefenseNews.com
• Michael Scanlon
By DefenseNews.com: The White House budget office wants to raid a Navy radar-plane account and a classified Air Force line to pull the E-7 Wedgetail back from the dead.
Aviation Week
• Tony Osborne
By Aviation Week: The Belgian Air Force has joined the growing number of Airbus H145M operators after taking delivery of its first aircraft of the type on June 23.
aviation-defence-universe.com
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
By Air Data News: Embraer has signed a new industrial cooperation agreement with Poland's Wojskowe Zakłady Lotnicze Nr 2 (WZL-2), further developing its partnership with the Polish aerospace company in pursuit of a future order for the KC-390 Millennium military transport aircraft.
Aviation Today
• Frank Wolfe
By Aviation Today: The Air Force is examining the development of an Advanced Wing Weapons Pylon (AWWP) for the B-52H and a long-term buy of up to 130 AWWPs to replace the bomber’s Improved Common Pylon (ICP), designed in 1959 and fielded in the 1960s.
Breaking Defense
• Frank Kendall
By Breaking Defense: Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall discusses whether effective arms control can be applied to autonomous systems in this book excerpt.
AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
By AeroTime: French investigators have found that opposite cockpit inputs canceled an emergency roll command before a fatal 2024 Rafale mid-air collision.
Reuters
• Humeyra Pamuk, Phil Stewart
The War Zone
• Howard Altman, Joseph Trevithick
