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The coming year likely to be full of more operational challenges for airframers.
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The airframers face another year of focus on operational and quality issues, market uncertainties and product development challenges.
 
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Tony Osborne 

National evaluations put the F-35’s military capability well ahead of its competitors, Helsinki says.
 
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Fighters from several nations showed off their capabilities at air shows or during training missions that keep pilots ready for combat.
 
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Rich Piellisch

Engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Canada and airframer Dassault announced the receipt of Transport Canada type certification of the PW812D engine for the Falcon 6X ultra widebody business jet on Dec. 1, 2021.
 
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Guy Norris

Engine-makers face a busy 2022 technology development and test schedule as gas turbines take center stage in emission-reduction battle.
 
Thierry Dubois, Guy Norris

As Airbus and Boeing outline plans to make flying compatible with environmental goals, they are choosing different paths.

 
Tony Osborne

Europe’s defense cooperation is changing face as a new era of centrally stimulated collaboration gets underway.
 
Tony Osborne

The rotorcraft industry’s 2021 is summed up more easily by the things that did not happen, rather than those that did.
 
Chen Chuanren

From Beijing to Jakarta, a guide to the likely developments regarding combat aircraft in the region.
 
 
December 16, 2021
10.00 EST | 15.00 GMT

Since 2016, the U.S. has been racing to catch up with Chinese and Russian hypersonic weapons development. But political change has installed a new group of leaders in the Pentagon, including some who are now questioning the relevance and cost of such weapons. This webinar will explain in detail the breadth of the hypersonic weapons portfolio now in development and testing, and debate the operational utility of such weapons versus slower or less maneuverable alternatives in a future conflict.
 
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