Defense Aircraft & Propulsion

May 28, 2021
The U.S. Air Force’s $156.3 billion budget request for fiscal 2022 marks a 2.3% increase over the previous year, and includes funding to buy 48 Lockheed Martin F-35As.
May 26, 2021
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) has confirmed it has begun taking delivery of its new Boeing CH-47F Chinooks heavy-lift helicopters.
May 26, 2021
The Philippines is set to take delivery of its first pair of Turkish Aerospace Industries T129 ATAK gunships in September, after the U.S. approved export of the rotorcraft’s engines.
May 25, 2021
In a policy reversal from a year ago, the head of U.S. Transportation Command will support the Air Force’s plan to start retiring the Boeing KC-135 fleet in order to invest the proceeds from operational costs into KC-46 procurement.
May 25, 2021
Airbus has reached a milestone of 100 deliveries of its A400M airlifter with the handover of the 10th aircraft to the Spanish Air Force.
May 25, 2021
The UK’s Tempest future combat air system initiative could generate more than 20,000 jobs and pump £26 billion ($37 billion) into the economy between 2021 and 2050, suggests an independent review of the program.
May 25, 2021
The UK Ministry of Defense has opted for Lockheed Martin’s Joint Air-to-Ground Missile rather than MBDA’s Brimstone as the primary weapon for its new AH-64E Apache attack helicopter fleet.
May 24, 2021
The specter of war with China across the vast Pacific Ocean has provoked the U.S. military to re-imagine the command-and-control mission, spend…