United Kingdom (UK)

The new targets, confirmed April 25, include a review mechanism to help manage prices and minimize the impact on ticket prices for passengers.

The Shetland Islands’ SaxaVord spaceport has secured a range control license from the UK’s aviation regulator in another step toward the first orbital launches from the site.

As it looks ahead to a first flight of its electric propulsion unit this year, UK startup Evolito has appointed an experienced aerospace executive as chief technology officer.

Labour has now joined the Conservatives in pledging to raise defense spending to 2.5% of GDP, but woolly caveats and an impending election leave doubts.

The UK defense ministry has finalized a deal to buy six new Airbus H145 twin-engine light helicopters to support military training in Brunei and Cyprus.

GKN Aerospace is nearing critical milestones in its H2Gear hydrogen-electric powertrain research and technology project after overcoming supply chain issues.

The full details of the multinational, multilayered defense against the Iranian attack are still kept secret.

British lawmakers are challenging the government to increase defense spending, but the issue does not appear to be a public priority.

Former Rolls-Royce CEO Warren East has been appointed chairman of NATS, the UK air navigation service provider.

Trudeau's comments emerge after the AUKUS nations revealed they are considering Japan’s accession as a “potential collaborator” in some elements of Pillar Two.

The UK government has said most UK airports will be unable to meet its June 2024 deadline to install new-generation security scanners.

A key element of a novel electric propulsion demonstrator has been completed and is set to begin bench testing under a UK government-supported research program.

Leading British aerospace research center Cranfield University is set to establish the UK’s first airport-based, large-scale hydrogen research hub.

The UK has released the first road map for development of technologies to tackle non-CO2 emissions from aviation.

The British Army Air Corps has marked the impending retirement of its locally assembled Apache attack helicopters with a flypast around the UK.

British intelligence officials are suggesting Moscow could be facing fleet availability issues.

A UK-based startup has begun flight tests of a co-axial, rotary-wing UAS that it hopes to bring to the military market in the next two years.

Integrating the first UAM aircraft into today’s urban airspace environments is going to be a huge challenge, a UK panel says.

Spanish companies will use a microsatellite built by Kongsberg NanoAvionics to test their planned space-based air traffic management (ATM) system.

While the U.S. remains the world’s paramount military power, its defense industrial base has significant shortcomings compared to China’s.

UK startup Vertical Aerospace said it expects its second full-scale VX4 eVTOL vehicle prototype to be completed in “the coming weeks.”

The UK defense ministry has finalized a deal with Boeing to buy 14 MH-47G Chinook helicopters after having deferred the purchase for three years.

The committee found that the defense ministry had been putting off making major program decisions.

Skyports Infrastructure is to develop the UK’s first vertiport testbed at Bicester Motion, a former Royal Air Force airfield in Oxfordshire.

SAF production occupies an unhelpful position in the investment cycle.