Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The Czech Republic has joined the growing number of European nations opting to purchase Embraer’s C-390 airlifter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Arms exports topped $17.3 billion for South Korea in 2022, smashing the previous yearly record of $7 billion, set in 2021.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
Thales will be responsible for "adapting, integrating and qualifying" the Scorpion helmet-mounted display onto KAI-manufactured Polish FA-50s.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The Malaysian Air Force's CAP55 roadmap would suggest the force will return to Airbus for more H225Ms to unify its fleet.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
A Near Earth Autonomy-Kaman team and Piasecki Aircraft have won contracts to demonstrate UAVs for the U.S. Army’s HVTOL program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Additional L3Harris counter-uncrewed aircraft systems are expected to be in Ukraine by year’s end.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Turkish uncrewed aircraft systems developer Baykar has begun initial ground tests of its latest platform, the Bayraktar TB3.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
German industry is urging the government in Berlin to urgently decide on future investments in the Eurofighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
GE Aerospace has delivered the second T901 engine for installation in the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft prototypes.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Brian Everstine
L3Harris is co-primed with BAE Systems on the EC-37B.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
EirTrade’s founder, Ken Fitzgibbon, will remain CEO and retain “significant equity ownership” in the 13-year-old Irish company.
MRO

By Steve Trimble
The F124 powered the Boeing X-45A uncrewed combat aircraft system demonstrator in the early 2000, and now will be offered for Collaborative Combat Aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
No decision is expected from Buenos Aires until after national elections on Oct. 22, but the proposal comes at a difficult time for the Argentine economy.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The Quarterhorse Mk 0 is a less than 40-ft.-long mockup featuring the turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) Chimera 1 engine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The demonstrator is representative of the Chaparral full-scale prototype that Elroy is preparing for flight testing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The unarmed MQ-9s will fly in direct support of NATO’s so-called air-shielding mission, monitoring activity along Ukraine’s borders with alliance member states.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Boeing on Oct. 11 completed the first flight of an upgrade to its AH-64E Apache about two years after an award from the U.S. Army.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The 6,000-shp T55-GA-714C, which includes a new compressor module, has components in different stages of validation testing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Air Force has re-formed a squadron to fly the General Atomics Protector uncrewed aircraft system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Defense Minister Ludivine Dedonder has told Belgian radio station RTL on Oct. 11 that Belgium would be able to send F-16s to Ukraine after 2025­.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Jen DiMascio, Michael Bruno
Tom Burbage, the former EVP of the F-35 program during its first decade of development, discusses what it took to get the fighter program off and running.
Check 6

By Chen Chuanren
The test campaign saw more than 500 dry and wet contacts between the Airbus A330 MRTT and Singapore's receivers, including F-15SGs and Lockheed Martin F-16s.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Bill Sweetman
New details reveal the heritage embedded in the new U.S. bomber design.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Bill Sweetman
A microcutaway of what we think we know about features on the U.S. Air Force’s next stealth bomber.
Aircraft & Propulsion