🔷 Saved Rounds 10.15.24

Welcome to Tuesday's Saved Rounds, where we send out all the goodies we couldn't squeeze into our Sunday newsletter.

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They Said It
“There was a national consciousness that somebody could do something to us. We’ve lost that.”

— Air Force Gen. Randall Reed, commander of US Transportation Command

Zoom in

What can the unique design of the German Panzerabwehrrichtmine (PARM) anti-take mine teach us about autonomy and ethics?

Zoom in here to find out.

In that Number

$2 billion

Boeing’s defense unit will report a $2 billion loss this quarter, mostly due to underperformance on fixed-price contracts like the T-7 ($900m loss) and KC-46 ($700m loss)

Fighter Pilot Wade Hunter "Thunder" Nunnelley & Family
are in the fight of their lives.

What started as severe back pain quickly became a life-altering diagnosis—brain cancer with tumors down Thunder’s spine.

Please spend a minute to
 read their story.

Saved Rounds

• UVisionUSA unveiled a new autonomous multi-launch loitering munition system

• Anduril was awarded a $250m contract for 500 Roadrunner counter-UAS interceptors

• The Air Force is looking for protective nets to shield the F-22 flight line from drone attacks

• Ukraine is getting French Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets in the next 6 months

• Italy was approved to buy EA-37B Compass Call, a G550-based electronic warfare aircraft

• Taiwan’s radar-homing loitering munition entered production

• The UK’s Royal Navy has its jets on a carrier after a 15-year hiatus

• The US & Japan are looking into co-producing AIM-120 missiles

• Aurora Flight Sciences unveiled new renderings of its DARPA SPRINT fan-in-wing X-plane

• Lithuania ordered more NASAMS ground-based AIM-120 systems

• Lockheed Martin’s canceled ARRW hypersonic weapon program oddly received a $13m contract extension

• The Navy postponed retirement of the EP-3E Spyplane amid ongoing operational commitments

• Denmark pledged $618m for Ukrainian defense production

• L3Harris & Embraer are no longer working to pitch the C-390 tanker concept to the US

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