Defense Budget, Policy & Operations Analysis

Dec 18, 2024
The service is teeing up 2025 as the year of space domain awareness as threats from China loom.
Dec 18, 2024
Forecasts, snapshots and military aircraft to watch.
Dec 18, 2024
Geopolitical and environmental challenges in the northern latitudes are prompting investments in satellite communications and infrastructure.
Dec 17, 2024
The Aviation Week Intelligence Network is tracking $193 billion in open opportunities for military aircraft over the next decade.
Dec 16, 2024
Can Moscow revive its military aircraft export business? It is ready to try.

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Oct 14, 2025
Three F-35s arrived at the Florennes Air Base on Oct. 13, marking the type’s official incorporation into the Belgian Air Force.
Oct 14, 2025
The companies producing the highly in-demand Patriot PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhanced interceptor are continuing to bulk up their production capacity.
Oct 14, 2025
The U.S. Army will start executing within a month a fielding plan for acquiring and delivering Launched Effects-Short Range air vehicles.
Oct 14, 2025
Ukraine’s ability to take down Russian drones is largely limited by the availability of systems to engage them, rather than the technology to do so, a senior U.S. Army air defense official says.
Oct 13, 2025
France’s Air and Space Force is studying how to separate the Dassault Rafale fighters and Airbus A330 multirole tanker transports it uses for nuclear deterrence from the rest of its fleets.
Oct 13, 2025
The Swiss government is looking to expand its military space capacity to field a range of capabilities, including counter-space, to safeguard its troops.
Oct 13, 2025
Malaysia has allocated MYR21.7 billion ($5.1 billion) for defense and security in fiscal 2026, representing a 2.9% year-on-year increase.
Oct 10, 2025
A recent study has flagged another potential threat to the strategic supply chain—a possible chokehold on a rare metal essential to high-performance engines.