10/06/2026
Modernizing legacy aircraft does not always require a new airframe or a years-long avionics upgrade.
A new Defense.info interview with Mike Twyman, Chief Strategy Officer at Integrity Defense Solutions, Inc. (IDS), examines Obsidian Shield, a modular pod designed to bring legacy aircraft into modern networked operations.
Aery Aviation is supporting IDS on the program, bringing our aircraft integration, modification, engineering, and certification experience to the effort. The article looks at how the open-architecture, export-tailorable design can help integrate existing aircraft into coalition networks while reducing the time and complexity associated with traditional aircraft modifications.
Read the full interview with Mike:
https://defense.info/air-power-dynamics/2026/09/obsidian-shield-how-a-modular-pod-is-turning-legacy-aircraft-into-kill-web-participants/
Every air force in the world has the same problem hiding in its hangars: a fleet of legacy fighters and helicopters that were built for a different war and that cannot talk to the coalition architectures now being assembled around them. The aircraft still fly. The airframes still have years of servi...