Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The Trump administration’s ploy to get the fiscal 2027 defense budget to $1.5 trillion is increasingly unlikely on Capitol Hill.

Diehl Defense has revealed a mobile launcher for its ground-launched IRIS-T missile that will be capable of firing the weapon on the move.

A French Air Force Dassault Rafale downed a drone that entered Latvian airspace, marking the second shootdown of a UAS in the Baltic states in recent weeks.

Swarm Aero has picked Honeywell Aerospace to provide the powerplant for its Group 5 UAS it is targeting for the U.S. Air Force’s MQ-9 replacement.

Eight years after Airbus and Dassault shook hands at the ILA Berlin Air Show to jointly pursue a future combat aircraft, France and Germany have decided to go their separate ways.

Finish space startup Iceye says it has raised €450 million in a further funding round that values the synthetic aperture radar business at over $12 billion.

Taiwan is accelerating plans to replace the Republic of China Air Force's Beechcraft T-34C basic trainer fleet following a fatal crash that renewed concerns over the aircraft's future.

Airbus has shared plans to have an in-house developed system called the U760 Ravenstorm ready for delivery by 2032.

With Germany taking the lion’s share of new-production Eurofighters, Airbus Defense and Space’s final assembly line in Manching has not been this busy since the mid-2010s.

Growing demand for high-end uncrewed aircraft is prompting MTU Aero Engines to explore at least a partial reset of its design philosophy in an effort to establish itself as a major propulsion provider for such systems.

The German Air Force is undergoing an intense period of modernization through the end of the decade that will do more than just revitalize its core air dominance role, says Luftwaffe Inspector Lt. Gen. Holger Neumann.

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A Danish audit of the country’s Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program has found that the country’s fleet of 27 aircraft could cost some 14 billion kronor more to operate than previously estimated.

The Week Ahead In Aerospace & Defense

The U.S. Space Force is opening up an undeveloped site at its Western Range to support small- and medium-lift launch missions.

Palladyne AI has signed an exclusive agreement to manufacture and market IAI’s Harpy, Harop and Mini Harpy loitering munitions to the U.S. Defense Department.

The U.S. Marine Corps is starting anew with an effort to replace its Bell AH-1Z and UH-1Y helicopter fleet with a new, potentially uncrewed aircraft.

Axiom Space and Italy’s Prada fashion house have unveiled the Liquid Coolant and Ventilation Garment (LCVG) element of their next-generation spacesuit.

The U.S. has OK'd Denmark for a potential foreign military sale of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles-Extended Range air-launched cruise missiles.

A Czech astronaut is poised to travel to the International Space Station under a Vast private astronaut mission, the European Space Agency said.

European defense tech startup Stark has unveiled a tube-launched loitering munition and quadcopter for potential weaponization.

Lufthansa Technik is preparing to ramp up its defense activities as Germany starts introducing into service a range of new aircraft.

South Korea has reversed plans to scale back production of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-21 fighter, restoring the program to its original schedule.

Destinus is preparing the next step in its push to become a full-fledged rival to the likes of MBDA by designing rockets not just for the battle in Ukraine today, but for conflict tomorrow.

NASA’s Lockheed Martin-built X-59 Quesst low-boom demonstrator conducted its first supersonic flight on June 5, reaching Mach 1.1 on an 81-min. mission.