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Opinion: Three Big Questions About India’s Combat Aircraft Future

Richard Aboulafia

Changes to India’s military procurement process would have implications for the broader world combat aircraft market.

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U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX In Design Maturation, Competing Companies Announced

Brian Everstine

The U.S. Navy’s secretive next-generation fighter program has completed concept refinement and has moved into a design maturation phase.

Taiwan Believes Domestic Next-Gen Fighter Could Lead To F-35

Chen Chuanren

Taiwan’s defense urges its government to approve quickly and fund a domestically developed Advanced Defense Fighter, which it says could unlock access to F-35s.

LeoStella, Hera Systems Form Partnership For Joint SDA Proposal

Garrett Reim

LeoStella and Hera Systems have formed a strategic manufacturing partnership and put forward a proposal for the U.S. Space Development Agency.

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ZeroAvia Shifts Hydrogen-Electric Demo Focus To Larger Regionals

Graham Warwick

Startup begins converting 70-seat Dash 8 Q400 to test a 2-megawatt-class hydrogen fuel-cell powertrain.

Airbus-Boeing Medium Widebody Freighter Future In Flux

Guy Norris, Jens Flottau, Helen Massy-Beresford, Sean Broderick

With the launch of the Airbus A350F and Boeing 777-8F, the next widebody battleground is looming—the medium freighter market and 767-300F replacement.

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Another Chinese eVTOL Startup Adds Funding

Graham Warwick

Chinese startup Zero Gravity Aircraft Industry has raised almost 100 million yuan ($14 million) in financing, its second round in three months, to fund development and flight testing of its ZG-T6 six-seat tiltrotor electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

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