Russia’s largest helicopter operator, Utair Group, may ground 30% of its fleet this year due to a shortage of spare parts and components, the firm's CEO says.
Spain is planning to raise national defense spending steadily to 2% of GDP by the end of the decade, enabling expenditures on a range of new equipment.
The U.S. Air Force is designing its Collaborative Combat Aircraft program—uncrewed systems that will fly alongside future fighters—to be fielded in increments.
President Joe Biden said May 19 that the U.S. supports an international effort to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s and other fourth-generation fighters.
General Javier Salto Martínez-Avial, chief of the Spanish Air Force, says securing a further top-up order of Eurofighters is among his top priorities for 2023.
The new partnership seeks to pressure the Canadian government to open the CP-140 fleet replacement to bids instead of a sole-source award for the P-8A.
Capitol Hill is supportive of the Pentagon’s, and particularly the U.S. Air Force’s, plan to develop large numbers of uncrewed Collaborative Combat Aircraft.
Sikorsky hopes to establish a partnership with Spanish industry to support the sustainment of new MH-60R Seahawk helos being acquired by the Spanish navy.
Airbus is advancing the development of its Sirtap tactical uncrewed aircraft system, targeting a first flight in 2025 and service entry as soon as 2026.
Airbus Helicopters has completed the first autonomous takeoffs and landings from a ship with its VSR700 uncrewed rotorcraft in a full operational configuration.
Germany’s army is to begin phasing out its Airbus Tiger attack helos beginning in 2031 after concluding that a planned upgrade program would be “highly risky."
