UAS

By Robert Wall, Tony Osborne
Can the French-German-Spanish fighter development program be saved? The next few months could be decisive.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
With engine upgrades, stealth drone integration and enhanced weapons, France’s Dassault Rafale is evolving for the future—and eyeing new export wins.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
One of two prototypes of Turkish Aerospace Industries’ Anka 3 uncrewed combat air vehicle has been lost after crashing upon landing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Angus Batey
The emergent advanced air mobility industry is not short of startups working on ambitious technology programs.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
As U.S.-developed collaborative combat aircraft near flight trials, their designers are testing the waters for international sales.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Fulco
The second Trump administration’s executive order signals a new, more aggressive phase in the U.S. effort to overcome dependency on Chinese drone supply chains.
Supply Chain

By Thierry Dubois
French armament procurement agency DGA has selected Daher as one of five companies to fly a medium-altitude, long-endurance demonstrator for uncrewed ops.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Zaynab Zlitni
U.S. FBO company Signature Aviation and Italian vertiport startup UrbanV have partnered to explore the development of a network of vertiports across the U.S.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
French drone maker Parrot has unveiled an all-in-one autopilot, camera and radio module for small UAVs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Fulco
Taiwan will buy military drone software that Ukraine has used to defend itself against Russia from the Virginia-headquartered defense technology firm Auterion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Airbus says talks are underway on how to evolve the Eurodrone program in terms of missions and participants, in part to reflect lessons from current conflicts.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Jennifer Meszaros
China's United Aircraft Group is showcasing its 6-ton-class tiltrotor aircraft, the Lanying R6000, at the 55th Paris Air Show.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
MBDA has lifted the lid on a low-cost, long-range, one-way attack drone concept used to saturate an adversary’s air defenses.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
Russia has conducted large-scale trials of new laser systems against UAVs, the country’s government reported June 13.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Guy Norris
Aircraft hydrogen fuel cell specialist H3 Dynamics is teaming with XSun to develop what they describe as the world’s first solar-hydrogen-electric UAS.
Emerging Technologies

By Robert Wall
The French military and Dassault are working to have a new, large combat drone ready early next decade for the service entry of the latest Rafale F5 fighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
The U.S. Army has funded a demonstration project to 3D print an air-launched effect fuselage using composite materials.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
A DARPA program that set out to demonstrate a new class of UAS has morphed into a drive to transform the way the services acquire capability.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
In addition to learning lessons from the Russia-Ukraine War, the French Air and Space Force is working on defense in space.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has branded its modular crewed-uncrewed teaming (CUC-T) capabilities for rotorcraft, marketing it as HTeaming.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
A joint venture between Italy’s Leonardo and Turkish UAS manufacturer Baykar will be called LBA Systems, it has emerged ahead of the Paris Air Show.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Air Force has agreed to a support and sustainment contract for its fleet of new General Atomics Protector MQ-9B uncrewed aircraft systems.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
U.S. President Donald Trump issued executive orders directing FAA to take immediate action to expand drone operations and strengthen counter-drone capabilities.
Aerospace

By Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne
Attacking enemy airfields is a decades-old military objective, but new drone technology and special warfare tactics amplify the threat.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army’s program of evaluating new counter-drone technologies recently conducted its sixth test event.
Aircraft & Propulsion