Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Jordan has signed an agreement with the U.S. government to buy eight GE Aviation F110-powered Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70s, the company said June 16.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The Netherlands has selected Embraer’s C-390 airlifter as the replacement for its long-serving Lockheed C-130 Hercules fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
NATO has launched a three-year Concept Stage for the Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability (NGRC) program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Germany has retired its last Airbus A310 multirole tanker transport, leaving Canada as the final military operator of the widebody transport.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Israeli company Aeronautics Group has identified the Israel Defense Forces as the launch customer for the Trojan, a small, uncrewed air system that will have solar panels embedded in the 4.2-m wingspan.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
An interim software fix for the Pegasus is delayed due to errors in the first modified aircraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Norway has canceled its NH90 program and is demanding a refund after struggling with availability of the naval variant.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
DARPA has launched a new project that sees a fresh role for the U.S. Air Force fleet of aerial tankers as airborne recharging points for networks of electric-powered UAS by adding a wing-mounted laser pod.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
The pinnacle of aviation manufacturing could be located in the Blue Ridge Mountains and see everything under one roof.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Garrett Reim
The Space Flight Laboratory deorbited its CanX-7 demonstration nanosatellite using four drag sails in April, five years after the sails were deployed and significantly sooner than it would have deorbited naturally.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
NHIndustries claims that French and German NH90 fleets will benefit from improved availability rates through a new support contract for the rotorcraft agreed to by the OEM and NATO agency NAHEMA.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Poland plans to purchase a fleet of Leonardo AW149 medium helicopters to meet a long-standing requirement for a multimission helicopter.
ILA Berlin

By Steve Trimble
For most of the past 70 years, the Lockheed Martin C-130 has defined the role of tactical airlift in the U.S. Air Force inventory.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
To help Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) position itself to better compete for future jet trainer contracts in North America, the South Korean manufacturer has signed a teaming agreement with Lockheed Martin to market the T-50 worldwide.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Air Force has reactivated a search for a small drone that can shoot down other small ones, after the program fell silent for a year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
After Ukrainian invasion wake-up call, Germany sets course for €100 billion recapitalization with military aviation at its heart.
ILA Berlin

By Steve Trimble
After a 20 year search for a CF-18 replacement, Canada is months away from signing a F-35 contract.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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

By Graham Warwick
Israel’s Aeronautics Group plans to debut its latest uncrewed aircraft, the Trojan, at the Eurosatory show in Paris June 13-17.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
Five U.S. Marines were killed June 8 when a Bell Boeing MV-22B crashed in California, the second fatal accident involving the tiltrotor within three months.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Canada’s first private-equity fund dedicated to the aerospace supply chain is targeting $100 million and already has garnered commitments for $77 million, officials said.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
While the Future Combat Air System program is still stalled because of a disagreement between Airbus and Dassault Aviation, the French procurement agency and Dassault are hinting they have ideas for a Plan B.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A cryptic news release by Safran Landing Systems Canada Inc. hints at the existence of a secret Lockheed Martin aircraft project.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee will allow the U.S. Air Force to continue to chip away at its C-130 and legacy tanker fleets under its markup of the fiscal 2023 defense policy bill.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Electric-powered jetpacks and paragliders could come to the battlefield.
Aircraft & Propulsion