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Tough Challenges Call For Bold Technology Advances
Whether its for airliners or fighters, companies are making big investments in R&D
Engineers at the RTX Technology Research Center test STEP-Tech propulsors
The RTX Technology Research Center is testing STEP-Tech propulsors as one of the group's hybrid-electric powertrain development projects.

The existential threat to the air transport industry if it fails to achieve net-zero carbon emissions and the mounting dangers from military conflicts around the world were hard to ignore at the Farnborough Airshow this year.

Threats faced by the aerospace and defense industries beg for answers in the form of technology, technology, and yet more technology. This year the show has proved light on major product reveals, but the event has been packed with tidings of technological progress for the next decade and beyond.