Austria has been approved to acquire 12 more Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawks, as the country expands its military and consolidates its helicopter fleets.

The promoters of the Aero Excellence International supplier assessment program, launched in mid-2024, have gathered encouraging results.

BAE Systems is committed to performing final assembly and development work on the T-7 Redhawk in the UK if the platform is selected as the RAF's Hawk replacement.

BAE Systems says it is seeing global interest from Eurofighter Typhoon operators in the integration of guided rockets for the anti-drone role.

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Germany’s army aviation units have begun the transition from the Airbus Tiger attack helicopter to Airbus’ H145M LKH light attack helicopter.

Japan has dispatched its Kawasaki EC-2 standoff jammer aircraft to its flight development center after taking flight earlier this year.

The Finnish government has given the go-ahead for the country’s Defense Forces Logistics Command to procure RTX GBU-53 Small Diameter Bomb II munitions to equip its fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35As.