Defense Budget, Policy & Operations Analysis
Aug 16, 2024
The service is contemplating nonkinetic space fires and new roles for its soldiers in a changing era of space-based warfare.
Aug 16, 2024
Indonesia, Poland and Saudi Arabia are the F-15EX’s next targets for exports contracts.
Aug 15, 2024
As European nations grow increasingly worried about security in the Indo-Pacific region, their air forces explore scenarios for operating there.
Aug 13, 2024
The U.S. and Sweden are dangling incentives to secure combat aircraft orders in Thailand and the Philippines.
Aug 09, 2024
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
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Nov 14, 2025
Next week’s Dubai Air Show comes in the midst of significant shifts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) military aircraft market.
Nov 13, 2025
The 43-day government shutdown and Pentagon acquisition reforms may slow the U.S. Navy’s accelerated push to field a new jet trainer.
Nov 13, 2025
France is developing ground-based systems to protect its satellites, French President Emmanuel Macron said Nov. 12.
Nov 13, 2025
NATO looks set to restart the hunt for a new airborne early warning aircraft after dropping plans to acquire the Boeing E-7.
Nov 13, 2025
Appropriators approved spending for one U.S. Air Force program, the Boeing E-7A Wedgetail. The Pentagon in its fiscal 2026 budget request called for ending the effort.
Nov 12, 2025
Regional trends are hiding a slowdown in defense spending growth in the majority of countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
Nov 11, 2025
The People’s Liberation Army Air Force has released footage of the Hongdu GJ-11 flying alongside crewed fighters, suggesting a growing level of manned-unmanned integration.
Nov 10, 2025
Belgium has selected Pilatus’ PC-7 MKX turboprop trainer as part of an effort to recapitalize its training aircraft fleet.