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Subscribe nowThe top American officer in the Indo-Pacific region, Admiral Samuel Paparo, says Beijing is not simply conducting regular training exercises around Taiwan, but is rehearsing a military campaign to force the unification of Taiwan with mainland China.
The niche and emerging sector – which includes players developing electric, hybrid-electric and hydrogen-powered seaplanes – faces funding challenges, partly because investors are weary of aviation projects after dumping billions of dollars into now-struggling air taxi developers.
Although it lost out on a major US Army contract to develop a new long-range surveillance aircraft based on a Bombardier business jet, L3Harris continues to deliver similar aircraft that will be deployed to hotspots like the Korean Peninsula, along with new electronic warfare aircraft for the US Air Force, Italy and Australia.
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