Maj. Aaron “Gambit” Stevens, USAF, an F-35 Lightning II fighter pilot with the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, and a member of the US Air Force F-35 Heritage Team, discusses the US Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation, the significance of including the Joint Strike Fighter in the team’s flights, how the F-35A compares to the F-15C Eagle fighter and much more in a July 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Royal International Air Tattoo in the United Kingdom. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

Chuck Gummow, vice president of business development at Textron Aviation Defense, and Bill Harris, vice president of the company’s Scorpion program, share Scorpion and AT-6 Wolverine multi-mission aircraft program updates, discuss what makes the AT-6 a strong contender in the US Air Force’s OA-X light attack aircraft competition and much more during a wide-ranging, July 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS. Bell, a Textron company, sponsors our Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast.

Gen. Vincenzo Camporini, Italian Air Force Ret., former chief of the Italian Air Force and the Italian Defense Staff, and current vice president of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, dicusses his takeaways from the 2018 NATO Summit, the future of the military alliance and much more in a wide-ranging, July 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper, RAF Ret., former director-general of NATO’s International Military Staff, says NATO’s invocation of the Article 5 commitment shouldn’t depend on a threatened nation’s defense-spending level and discusses how Baltic air defenses can be improved on both a local and alliance level to deter Russia, what went right and wrong at the 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels, and much more in a wide-ranging, July 14, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Our RIAT coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

Greg Ulmer, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program, says he expects a Lot 11 agreement with the US government within about 30 days, and discusses the company’s June 6 delivery of the first four F-35 Lightning II fighters to the UK, program updates, modernization, sustainment, software stability, the Autonomic Logistics Information System (or ALIS), aircraft availability, and turnaround rates, projected unit pricing, potential new markets for the jet — including Finland and Canada — and much more during a wide-ranging, July 14, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Our RIAT coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

Philip Dunne, Tory MP, the UK’s former defense-procurement minister and the author of the “Growing the Contribution of Defence to UK Prosperity” report, discusses the publication’s findings on how the arms industry contributes to the British economy, what the country’s defense-industrial strategy needs to look like, why the US-UK defense relationship matters, NATO and much more during a wide-ranging, July 13, 2018, interview at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Our RIAT 2018 coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS. You can also listen to a podcast version of this interview, sponsored by L3 Technologies, here.