Italy’s aircraft carrier Cavour has embarked F-35 Joint Strike Fighters for the first time in a milestone towards qualifying the ship to support the combat aircraft. 

With the first flight of the Airpower Teaming System under its belt, Boeing Australia is producing more of the unmanned aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force’s Loyal Wingman demonstration program, the U.S. Force’s Skyborg autonomy initiative, and other customers.

Kelly Ortberg, the former head of Collins Aerospace who was a key leader in the supplier’s melt-up into Raytheon Technologies, has left its executive ranks, company representatives confirmed.

A successful first flight on March 1 has triggered additional investment of $90 million from the Australian government to build another three Boeing Airpower Teaming System aircraft.

For the first time, the U.S. Navy has successfully delivered an F-35C power module to an aircraft carrier.

U.S. drone manufacturer Skydio announced March 1 that it has raised $170 million in a Series D funding round led by the Andreessen Horowitz Growth Fund.

The UK’s Royal Navy has called on industry to provide information on electromagnetic catapults and arrestor wire systems that could launch and recover aircraft weighing 20 metric tons.

The partnership between France and Germany to develop a European Future Combat Air System (FCAS) may be close to fracturing, a group made up of experts from industry and academia has suggested.