Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Germany is pursuing an accelerated timeline for its Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter acquisition as the country looks to bring the aircraft into operation before the end of the decade.
ILA Berlin

By Tony Osborne
Denmark is to retain its F-16s at a higher operational level and for a longer period than planned due to regional tensions prompted by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Slovakia has revealed the donation of helicopters to Ukraine as part of a new round of arms transfers.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
The highly anticipated event took place on June 17 at Jiangnan Shipyard near Shanghai.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
The flight, which marked the first time Roc had flown at altitudes required for effective launch trajectories of Stratolaunch’s Talon-A hypersonic test vehicle, lasted just over three hours.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Romania’s government has approved a draft law that paves the way for the expansion of the country’s fleet of F-16 combat aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Sceye’s high-altitude platform stations (HAPS) airship recently reached the stratosphere and demonstrated the ability “to stay over an area of operation and maintain a constant float altitude.”
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.
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