On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Sash Tusa of the independent equity research firm Agency Partners, and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic Advisory consultancy join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the week on world markets as the Fitch downgrades US credit from AAA to AA+ over concerns that Washington has no plan to deal with burgeoning debt and new job creation was weaker than expected, look at second 2023 quarter earnings as Air Lease, AerCap, BAE Systems, Bombardier, Chemring, Garmin, HII, Howmet, Leidos, Parsons, Rolls-Royce, Spirit AeroSystems, and Triumph report, munitions production as Russia continues to deplete Ukrainian and Western stocks, and US Air Force awards Archer Aviation a contract for six of the company’s Midnight air taxis to test the utility of the concept in military operations.
