Aerospace, aerospace engineering, and defense

While we’ve focused a lot on aerospace, and aerospace engineering, we’ve found it prudent to now look at how it all fits in with defense in the context of the American government. This is a familiar topic to many Americans, mainly because of the news.

Here are some fascinating facts that tie aerospace engineering and defense.

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· The U.S. aerospace and defense industry is a merger of industries—aerospace and defense. The aerospace industry is responsible for the building, distribution, and sale of aircraft. The defense industry’s main focus is the assembly and distribution of systems and weapons for various military operations.

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· The aerospace industry, though mainly focused on producing aircraft, is also responsible for creating missiles and spacecraft, along with subsystems for propulsion, support systems mainly for monitoring, and everything needed for flight simulators.

· Because of the chunk it takes from the economy, only a few countries can afford their own aerospace and defense industry.

· The U.S. military is the largest market in the world when it comes to defense systems, not just in procuring aerospace and defense systems, but also in providing defensive capabilities to its allies.
· The aerospace industry will never run out of projects. From commercial airliners to national defense, aerospace engineers will always find long-term projects to be a part of. One such project is the mission to Mars.

Peter Zieve is an inventor with 23 patents under his name. He is also the CEO of Electroimpact, Inc., a highly-experienced aerospace automation company with an exceptional concentration of engineers. For similar reads, visit this blog.