Airbus and Kongsberg of Norway have teamed up in a bid to improve the availability of the country’s troubled NH90 fleet. 

Italy appears to be moving toward the creation of a joint Air Force and Navy unit to fly the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. 

Germany has marked the completion of the first of six new Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules that will operate as part of a joint squadron with France.

Spain has introduced the first of 17 remanufactured F-model Boeing CH-47 Chinook tandem-rotor, heavy-lift helicopters into service.

With funding support from the U.S. Air Force’s AFWerx innovation unit, Piasecki Aircraft plans full-scale ground tests and a scaled flight demonstration of hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion leading into development and certification of its planned PA-890 helicopter.

The F-35 Joint Program Office has delivered a modernized sustainment tracking system to 14 U.S. and European bases, completing the first phase of the rollout for the replacement of its glitch-prone predecessor.

A Kansas-based team plans to offer a tanker variant of a passenger-to-freighter converted Boeing 777-300ER to the U.S. Air Force.

Lockheed Martin’s entrant in the U.S. Air Force’s KC-Y “bridge tanker” program would be assembled in Mobile, Alabama, and missionized Marietta, Georgia, should it win the award, and the company expects requirements to be outlined in a draft request for proposals (RFP) this year.