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Is supersonic air travel for real?
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Joe Anselmo, Guy Norris, Graham Warwick

Nearly two decades after the Concorde was retired, is the rival of supersonic air travel for real?
 
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Graham Warwick

Archer Aviation’s production electric air taxi, called the Midnight, is being designed to fly 45 back-to-back 20-mi. missions a day with a pilot and four passengers and a 10-min. recharge between flights, at prices comparable to ground ride-sharing, the startup has revealed.
 
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Aviation Week Network hosted PwC leaders to discuss the changes occurring in the Defense Merger and Acquisition Landscape. Read their take on how the radically altered geopolitical environment has combined with ongoing economic and regulatory challenges to put unprecedented pressure on this market.
 
Garrett Reim

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has selected Microchip Technology to develop a High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC)processor with “at least 100 times the computational capacity of current spaceflight computers.”
 
 
From electric Alice nearing first flight at Moses Lake to Russian spacewalk cut short outside space station. Take a look at these and more in our daily roundup of aerospace & defense news.
 
 
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Friday, August 19, 2022
10:00 EDT | 15:00 BST |16:00 CEST

What does a reliable defense against a hypersonic glide vehicle look like?

The Missile Defense Agency is already working on adapting existing interceptors such as the SM-6 and SM-3 for the mission, but we now know that's just the beginning.
We will explore the weapons, sensors and command and control systems that will be required in the long-term to defeat one of the fastest and elusive weapons yet invented.
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Steve Trimble
Defense Editor, Aviation Week Network
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Wednesday, Aug 31, 2022
10:00 EDT | 15:00 BST |16:00 CEST

The approach to human-machine teaming in aerial combat continues to evolve.
New concepts often show a shift toward a new class of advanced autonomous wingmen “untethered” from the piloted fighters and bombers in a strike package, along with an array of multirole assets affordable enough to be expended as if they were munitions.

In this webinar, we will discuss the concepts emerging from government and industry leading to a new future of autonomous aircraft.
Meet the Panelists:
Steve Trimble
Defense Editor, Aviation Week Network
Brian Everstine
Pentagon Editor, Aviation Week Network
Tony Osborne
London Bureau Chief, Aviation Week Network

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Jen DiMascio
Executive Managing Editor, Defense & Space
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Jefferson Morris

Space Force takes over Army satcom; Osprey crash blamed on pilot error; Philippines eyes Chinook; and MH-139 to begin military testing.
 
Steve Trimble

Lockheed Martin will deliver the first Dark Eagle missiles with live warheads even as engineers continue to finalize the design.
 
Tony Osborne

The UK Royal Navy wants UAS to take on many of the surface and subsurface surveillance duties currently performed by manned helicopters.
 
 
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