The signing of the Milestone B acquisition decision memorandum earlier this week comes 20 months after Bell won a four-year-long competition.

Chen Chuanren, Aviation Week's Asia Pacific correspondent, covered Exercise Pitch Black in Darwin.

The Indonesian Air Force is set to buy a fleet of Bayraktar TB2 uncrewed aerial systems to bolster its surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.

The Royal Jordanian Air Force spent the latter half of the 2010s working to divest itself of aircraft programs in an effort to slow an oncoming budgetary crisis in the country. But notwithstanding constrained funding, the need for a strong regional bloc to counterbalance growing instability in the region remains strong.

The F-16 training school set up in Romania has graduated its first students but has yet to train Ukrainian pilots.

BAE Systems will keep an eye on possible defense consolidation in Europe, company CEO Charles Woodburn says.

MTU Aero Engines reports that the time in shop to overhaul some PW1000G geared-turbofan engines has fallen below 100 days.

Korea Aerospace Industries has shrunk its loyal wingman concept to quell concerns about how much it might cost.