About this episode

The episode discusses recent developments in the defense and aerospace sectors, including Wall Street trends and military troop withdrawals.

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic advisory consultancy join host Vago Muradian to discuss another strong week on Wall Street despite rising energy prices; implications of the collapse of Spirit Airlines; Airbus earnings as the European giant as well as Bombardier, Crane, Garmin and L3Harris report; Textron’s plan to separate its aerospace and defense business from its industrials group; business jet outlook; Washington’s warning to allies that delivery of the US weapons they’ve ordered will be long delayed as new production is redirected to refuel depleted American military stocks; the Pentagon’s Friday announcement that 5,000 troops from Germany will be withdrawn over the next six to 12 months, leaving 30,000 US service members in the country, where troop levels were before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; and the outlook for E-7 program as the US Air Force tests two prototypes of the Boeing radar plane with five to be delivered under the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase of the multi-year contract that the Trump…

People in this episode

Host: Vago Muradian

Guests: Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein, Richard Aboulafia

Topics covered

• Wall Street performance
• airline industry
• defense contracts
• military troop levels
• business aviation outlook
• Pentagon announcements

Keywords

• Wall Street
• Spirit Airlines
• Airbus earnings
• Textron
• US military
• E-7 program
• Boeing
• defense business
• energy prices

Sponsors

Bell

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bank of America Securities, AeroDynamic advisory consultancy, Spirit Airlines, Airbus, Bombardier, Crane, Garmin, L3Harris, Textron, US Air Force

Places: Germany, Ukraine

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