On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Tim Walton, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, discusses the report he co-authored with his director, Bryan Clark — “Resilient Aerial Refueling: Safeguarding the US Military’s Global Reach” — and why aerial refueling should be a top modernization priority and the fleet that will be needed for the challenges the nation faces especially in the Pacific with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Dr. Zack Krevor, the CEO of Stratolaunch, discusses how the company — created in 2011 by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen and Scaled Composites founder and aircraft design legend Burt Rutan — looks to drive innovation in hypersonic weapons development through rapid prototyping and testing, the company’s role in the development ecosystem, keys to speed and how US capabilities in the field compare against adversaries like China and Russia with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses who is also affiliated with the Center for a New American Security discusses Russia’s war on Ukraine and what’s next, Moscow’s strategy to use food as a weapon, impact of Western aid for Kyiv, and an update on unmanned warfare; and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners on how to think of key developments over the past week including the Russo-Ukrainian war, defense supply chains, China’s assault on an Australian P-8 aircraft and a look at the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.