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Jul 10, 2020
Committee backs increased F-35 buy; fixing drag on F-18 readiness; Austria to retire trainers; and Brazilian Gripen production starts.
Jul 10, 2020
Manned-unmanned teaming and combat cloud technologies are key disruptors in Europe’s Future Combat Air System.
Jul 10, 2020
Italian and Swedish industry will begin joining discussions on Tempest later this year.
Jul 10, 2020
The UK is preparing to advance to the next stage of its Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft technology demonstrator project.
Jul 09, 2020
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is looking at suborbital flights.

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Sep 30, 2022
A baseline estimate released on Sept. 30 by the F-35 Joint Program Office proposes a sharp drop in new orders for the single-engine stealth fighter in production lots beyond Lot 17.
Sep 29, 2022
Senior U.S. Air Force leaders in recent days have weighed in on China’s advancements in its fighter force, criticizing Beijing’s technical prowess but offering some praise for its inventiveness ahead of the upcoming 20th National Congress and the Zhuhai air show.
Sep 29, 2022
The Spanish Defense Ministry has awarded local industry with contracts to investigate “possible evolutions of the challenges of national defense, the air domain, and will detail possible solutions to face them.”
Sep 29, 2022
The Osprey’s flight crew had made an emergency landing after the 15th confirmed case of a slipped slag clutch inside the tiltrotor's engine nacelle.
Sep 28, 2022
U.S. officials outlined 11 capabilities that will be delivered to Kyiv over the next six to 24 months.
Sep 28, 2022
European countries are beefing up security around their oil and gas facilities after the European Union and the Danish and Swedish governments declared the damage caused to both Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea as sabotage.
Sep 28, 2022
Visiting South Korea’s Sacheon Air Base on Sept. 28 to observe a test flight of the first prototype KF-21, senior Indonesian defense officials said the advancement of the aircraft into flight testing was a “tangible manifestation” of the platform’s development.
Sep 27, 2022
All of the fatal civilian casualties caused by U.S. airstrikes in 2021 occurred in the waning days of the war in Afghanistan, according to a new report, as the Pentagon promises a new mitigation plan will further lessen the number of innocents harmed.