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Jun 05, 2024
Canada's procurement agency plans to fast-track its new fighter training program, awarding a contract within three years and introducing the jet by 2030.
May 31, 2024
Stockholm is transferring its remaining Saab ASC 890 aircraft to bolster Kyiv’s air defense capacity.
May 31, 2024
Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss the GAO's latest report on the F-35 and explain what's hampering the now $2 trillion program.
May 31, 2024
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
May 30, 2024
Saab is planning technology demonstrations to prove to Sweden's government that it can develop the nation’s next combat aircraft.

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Sep 10, 2025
Mauritania has built a modest but modern air force thanks to a fivefold increase in defense spending from 2003 to 2023.
Sep 09, 2025
After languishing in budgetary limbo, an electronic warfare suite developed for the F-16 is now being pressed quickly into service.
Sep 09, 2025
Poland has secured the lion’s share of a European Union financial assistance fund for nations to build their defense readiness.
Sep 09, 2025
Rafael has launched the industrial phase of adapting its Iron Beam high-power laser air defense system for maritime applications.
Sep 09, 2025
The Republic of Singapore Air Force is steadily introducing adaptive software technologies as a key enabler of its sense-strike operations.
Sep 08, 2025
The Finnish government and local satellite-maker Iceye have signed an agreement for the country’s defense forces to field an SAR satellite constellation.
Sep 08, 2025
Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear has left the agency less than one week before the first operational satellites are due to launch.
Sep 08, 2025
Bird Aerosystems has secured a contract to develop and test an enhanced self-protection system for the Israeli Air Force’s AH-64 Apache attack helicopters.