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Aug 07, 2024
The service is weighing a quick start for its next tanker while pausing the sixth-generation fighter program.
Aug 07, 2024
Cost overruns and schedule breaches are driving a new look at engine replacement and radar modernization requirements.
Aug 06, 2024
The Tempest program faces a political stress test in Britain’s new strategic defense review.
Aug 05, 2024
Predicting the end of dogfighting has been a cottage industry for decades, but the prospect is now very real.
Aug 02, 2024
Compound, conventional rotorcraft and tiltrotors are among the technologies being proposed by industry for NATO’s future rotorcraft needs.

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Oct 20, 2025
Lockheed Martin’s long tech collaboration with KAI could see development of a military variant of the high-speed X2 rotorcraft platform, a Lockheed exec says.
Oct 20, 2025
South Korea awarded L3Harris a contract to deliver the new Phoenix airborne early warning and control aircraft based on a Bombardier bizjet and an IAI radar.
Oct 17, 2025
South Korea has come under concerted pressure from Trump to increase defense spending and to raise contributions toward the U.S. military footprint there.
Oct 17, 2025
India says it has inaugurated a third production line for the Tejas Mk. 1-A and is also scaling up its production of Hindustan Turbo Trainer-40s.
Oct 17, 2025
The U.S. Air Force, faced with ongoing readiness issues across much of its fleet, has issued a call to aircraft owners who are near bases to help out.
Oct 17, 2025
The European Union has given the go-ahead to the €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) European Defense Industry Program aimed at supporting local industry and Ukraine.
Oct 17, 2025
Earth-observation company Planet is projecting 20% sales growth in the medium term as governments bolster access to imagery and related data from space.
Oct 16, 2025
The European Commission is proposing four flagship programs in the latest step the European Union is taking to bolster its defenses.