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Jun 09, 2026
A Ukrainian Gripen acquisition could unlock follow-on purchases from Sweden, and Brazil is considering additional buys, too.
Jun 09, 2026
Aviation Week editors discuss how Europe is reshaping its military and commercial aviation sectors amid growing security concerns.
Jun 08, 2026
The U.S. Defense Department could take steps to instill greater confidence among institutional investors about the outlook for defense contractors.
Jun 05, 2026
The Pentagon’s strategy to acquire 340,000 drones by the end of next year requires industry to scale production up while driving prices down.
Jun 05, 2026
The U.S. Army’s new Amazon.com-like website for drone acquisition is challenging industry business models and supply chains.

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Jun 09, 2026
Malaysia’s military modernization has been guided by Capability Development Plan 55, the first phase of which includes seven core strategic programs, with five directly related to aircraft procurement.
Jun 09, 2026
The U.S. military was poised to respond to Iranian forces on June 9 following the downing of a U.S. Army attack helicopter and rescue mission.
Jun 09, 2026
The Trump administration’s ploy to get the fiscal 2027 defense budget to $1.5 trillion is increasingly unlikely on Capitol Hill.
Jun 09, 2026
A French Air Force Dassault Rafale downed a drone that entered Latvian airspace, marking the second shootdown of a UAS in the Baltic states in recent weeks.
Jun 09, 2026
Eight years after Airbus and Dassault shook hands at the ILA Berlin Air Show to jointly pursue a future combat aircraft, France and Germany have decided to go their separate ways.
Jun 09, 2026
Finish space startup Iceye says it has raised €450 million in a further funding round that values the synthetic aperture radar business at over $12 billion.
Jun 09, 2026
With Germany taking the lion’s share of new-production Eurofighters, Airbus Defense and Space’s final assembly line in Manching has not been this busy since the mid-2010s.
Jun 09, 2026
The German Air Force is undergoing an intense period of modernization through the end of the decade that will do more than just revitalize its core air dominance role, says Luftwaffe Inspector Lt. Gen. Holger Neumann.