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Wednesday 12 June 2024 Defense Digest News, Analysis & Emerging Trends AviationWeek.com | AW&ST | Check 6 Podcast | Webinars | AWIN DARPA’s Ancillary X-Plane Program Aims To Raise The Bar For VTOL UAS Graham Warwick The Pentagon’s advanced research agency has selected six teams to develop preliminary designs for a shipborne VTOL uncrewed aircraft. Read more. Advertisement Pratt & Whitney's F135 Engine Core Upgrade (ECU) will ensure the F-35 remains the most advanced fighter for decades to come. Easily retrofittable with all F-35 variants, the ECU delivers the durability and performance to fully-enable next generation weapons and increased power and thermal management for Block 4 and beyond. Your Defense Digest – Now Weekly Aviation Week is increasing the frequency of the Defense Digest from bi-weekly to weekly, bringing you even more news, analysis and insight. Canadian Defense Industry Gets Early Warning On Next Big Contract Steve Trimble After being shut out of a patrol fleet acquisition, Ottawa’s aerospace industry is gearing up to compete for a new airborne early warning contract. Swedish Donations Build Ukrainian Airborne Early Warning Capacity Tony Osborne Stockholm is transferring its remaining Saab ASC 890 aircraft to bolster Kyiv’s air defense capacity. Advertisement Learn More Skunk Works Boss Details AI Approach For Air Combat Steve Trimble With the Collaborative Combat Aircraft, the head of Lockheed Martin’s advanced development arm challenges U.S. Air Force planners and competitors. More From Aviation Week Network event spotlight: digital transformation summit 2024 Digital Transformation Summit 2024 The success of digital transformations often lies not in the technical implementation, but in guiding the organizational and cultural changes required to achieve sustainable transformation. Join these industry experts to hear them share their strategies and lessons learned for effectively managing the human side of digital transformation. Secure your place today! Podcast Section Latest Edition Podcast: The F-35 Has A Case Of Long COVID Robert Wall, Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss the GAO's latest report on the F-35 and explain what's hampering the now $2 trillion program. Listen Now Advertisement An Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) membership provides you access to the most accurate, comprehensive and objective market intelligence in the industry – critical to efficient and effective strategic planning. AWIN has a module to provide the information required to build and maintain a competitive edge, including fleet data, 10-year market projections and more. Aviation Week & Space Technology SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED Subscribe to Aviation Week & Space Technology today for our award-winning analysis of the emerging trends, programs and technology propelling the global aerospace and defense industry future.  Subscribe Today. From The Archives 65 Years Ago 65 Years Ago In Aviation Week Our June 29, 1959, cover showed a North American X-15 “rocket research aircraft” being dropped from a Boeing B-52 on its first free-flight flight test two weeks earlier near Edwards AFB, California. The X-15 was released at a speed of Mach 0.80 and glided into a large S-turn by pilot Scott Crossfield to test the effectiveness of its control handling and flaps. Ultimately three X-15s would be built and make 199 flights. In 1967, one of them achieved a speed of Mach 6.72—an official record that stands to this day.  See the cover from Aviation Week, Including Space Technology's June 29, 1959 issue.

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