Ukraine war

War in Ukraine

By Brian Everstine
Replenishing key weapons and powering space launch demands drive extensive investments in Northrop’s propulsion production.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
Discussions among senior military leaders internationally have taken on a more serious approach, the top U.S. Air Force officer says
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
President Donald Trump approved an acceleration of arms shipments to Ukraine on July 14, with U.S. weapons paid for by European governments.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Aviation Week Staff
A Russian Altius long-endurance uncrewed air vehicle (UAV) crashed July 8 during flight testing near Kazan.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Robert Wall
Missile defense has become an all-domain juggling act to handle low- to high-end threats.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Jens Flottau
Russia’s main airline needs locally produced aircraft to replace Western jets, but that transition keeps facing setbacks.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A secretive drone manufacturing startup launched by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt will deliver “hundreds of thousands” of drones to Ukraine.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon on July 2 confirmed it has paused shipments of military aid to Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
The Swedish government says it will implement export credit guarantees for deals with Ukraine to help provide extra financial security to potential exporters.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble, Brian Everstine, Robert Wall
Israel’s 12-day operation against Iran provided a master class in gaining control of an adversary’s airspace and, with U.S. help, what can be done afterwards.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The UK is providing Ukraine with additional surface-to-air missiles, paid for with the interest from seized Russian assets.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the country's ability to mass-produce drones is only hindered by a lack of funding as he asked for more support.
Supply Chain

By Jens Flottau
Politics has returned to airline decision-making, potentially leading to suboptimal fleets and higher pricing.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
The UK aerospace industry has reacted favorably to reforms proposed by the government’s new industrial strategy.
Supply Chain

By Matthew Fulco
Taiwan will buy military drone software that Ukraine has used to defend itself against Russia from the Virginia-headquartered defense technology firm Auterion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
MBDA has lifted the lid on a low-cost, long-range, one-way attack drone concept used to saturate an adversary’s air defenses.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
In addition to learning lessons from the Russia-Ukraine War, the French Air and Space Force is working on defense in space.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
Europe’s first defense and space commissioner, a self-proclaimed transatlanticist, sets an “ambitious” agenda for the region’s defense.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Denmark is urgently acquiring a trio of ground-based air defense systems worth nearly $1 billion to defend its cities and critical infrastructure.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Poland has canceled a plan to acquire Sikorsky S-70 Black Hawk utility helicopters, citing a change in priorities.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
Five additional NATO members have joined a coalition of western countries aiming to help Ukraine bolster its electronic warfare capabilities.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne
Attacking enemy airfields is a decades-old military objective, but new drone technology and special warfare tactics amplify the threat.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army’s program of evaluating new counter-drone technologies recently conducted its sixth test event.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
An ongoing push in the U.S. Air Force to make its bases more resilient is likely to get more attention, the service’s top officer says.
Budget, Policy & Operations