Aircraft & Propulsion

Hybrid-electric aircraft developer VoltAero is preparing to test a more powerful piston engine from Kawasaki.

Of the 215 used fighters expected to transfer ownership in the coming decade, 132 of them (about 61%) will be F-16s, according to Aviation Week’s Fleet Discovery Military database.

The first Marine AH-1Z arrived has at Bell’s Amarillo Assembly Center in Texas to begin the first installations, which will increase onboard power generation.

The team of MAG Aerospace and L3Harris say their first prototype under a new U.S. Army effort for high-altitude ISR has taken its first flight.

The “successful” sortie of the first Tejas Mk1A, bearing company serial number LA-5033, lasted 18 min. and was flown by chief test pilot KK Venugpal.

Now in its fourth year, the European Commission-led EDF aims to support defense research, development and cooperation among member states.

The UK Royal Air Force is hoping to field an attritable autonomous collaborative platform to operate and provide mass to its combat aircraft fleets by 2030.

The $1.9 million Phase 1 contract under the Energy Web Aircraft program calls for Otto and Swift Engineering to build the uncrewed air vehicle.

Venus Aerospace’s team intentionally throttled the hydrogen peroxide monopropellant engine at 80% thrust to prevent the drone from reaching supersonic speed.

After observing the battlefield effectiveness of UAS in Ukraine and Gaza, the Taiwanese Defense Ministry has shared plans to improve its uncrewed capabilities.

Its plan differs from some prior programs, such as the venerable MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper.

Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen signed a letter of intent to finalize the deal later this year in Denmark.

A Turkish indigenous active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar has taken to the air for the first time in an F-16, local defense officials announced.

Saab will supply its Arexis sensor suite to equip a fleet of German Air Force Eurofighters for the suppression and destruction of enemy air defense mission.

Boeing's MQ-28 Ghost Bat final assembly facility will open in 2027 in Toowoomba, Queensland.

Blended wing body developer JetZero has received an FAA airworthiness certificate for its 12.5% scaled demo, clearing the uncrewed twin-engine aircraft.

Armor Harris, the newly hired vice president of Aircraft Engineering for San Diego-based Shield AI, wants to lead a new revolution in aircraft design.

Croatia and Greece have signed contracts to purchase de Havilland Canada DHC-515 amphibious aircraft to modernize their aerial firefighting fleets.

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

Hybrid Air Vehicles wants to build production, testing and certification facilities that would be able to produce up to 24 airships a year.

South Korea will spend close to $6 billion on 40 KF-21s and related infrastructure and armaments through 2028.

De Havilland Aircraft of Canada is reviewing the potential market for a modernized version of the Short Sherpa twin-turboprop cargo aircraft, last produced in 1990.

Lockheed Martin Ventures led a group of 14 investors that raised a $12.5 million seed round investment in Firestorm Labs.

The U.S. government says it welcomes a decision this week by a new Argentinian government to acquire an undisclosed number of used F-16s from Denmark.

Boom Supersonic has flown XB-1 demonstrator, the world’s first privately developed faster-than-sound civil aircraft.