Aerospace

The 2025 edition of the collocated IDEX and NAVDEX event draws to a close, reporting record numbers and a tale of great success for host Abu Dhabi, with more than 150,000 visitors in attendance.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

A new kind of air vehicle is entering the U.S. military arsenal, capable of performing several roles including strike, reconnaissance and target decoy duties.

The military spaceplane is logging hundreds of days on orbit to collect data for future development.

Honeywell’s RASP also aims to anonymize speech for national security purposes.

The airframer faces challenges on several fronts in leaving stubborn problems in its wake this year.

There are three lessons to take away from Airbus’ admission that it is delaying its hydrogen-fueled aircraft dream.

The first hydrogen-fueled aircraft to enter service are expected to use automotive-style pressurized gaseous hydrogen storage.

The fire at SPS Technologies remained active with “hot spots” but was contained as of 9:30 a.m. EST on Feb. 20.

Both aircraft have a similar configuration, with eight propellers on four underwing booms.

Turbulence Solutions is in the final stages of development of a turbulence-canceling system for ultralights, before studying its application to larger aircraft.

Day 4 of SHOW BUSINESS highlights a UAE-made unmanned ground vehicle from TAG Dynamics that is turning heads at IDEX, while elsewhere the rise of manned-unmanned air operations between drones and next-generation fighters comes under the spotlight.

Danish energy company Topsoe and Malaysian firm FatHopes Energy have agreed to explore the possibility of setting up an SAF refinery in Malaysia.

Airbus faces challenges on several fronts in 2025 as the looming acquisition of sites from Spirit AeroSystems is proving more complex than hoped while engine deliveries remain slow.

The Airbus CEO says talks with Leonardo and Thales to fix an overcapacity problem in European satellite development and production could lead to creating a combined entity modeled on missile-maker MBDA.

The 100-kW ENGINeUS 100B1 is designed to power electric training aircraft.

New spins on NASA-developed heat shield technologies paved the way for an era of reusable space vehicles.

Excluding China, the 60 largest eVTOL startups have raked in a combined total of $13 billion since their inception.

Twelve has raised an additional $83 million in funding to build power-to-liquid fuel plants, beginning with its AirPlant One facility in Moses Lake, Washington.

MTU's CEO says his company and partner Pratt & Whitney plan to develop a ducted second-generation of the GTF for the next Airbus and Boeing narrowbodies.

It will be exactly a year on February 21 that the fifth-gen Kaan fighter prototype made its first flight.

The IDEX Day 3 edition of SHOW BUSINESS led with a story from Airbus discussing the possibility of UAE-based firms taking on A400M airlifter work to help the European manufacturer secure its first orders for the type in the Middle East.

Two firefighting helicopters are on display at the Adnec Marina showing off their credentials in tackling high-rise building fires in the UAE.

It’s not often that offset deals make headlines of their own, but an agreement signed between UAE organisations, Raytheon and engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney falls into that category.

Edge is exhibiting the Sinyar LAR3P unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) -a product of the company’s joint venture with Flaris.