Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The leader of Colombia strongly rejected a nearly month-old report that he has received a recent offer from China to buy J-10CE fighters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
NATO’s aerial refueling fleet is set to be boosted with two more Airbus A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transports after Denmark formally signed up to the initiative.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The late budget rollout, coupled with a reliance on GOP-led reconciliation, has caused consternation in a typically bipartisan budget process.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. used almost all operational Northrop Grumman B-2 bombers and more than half of its GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators in striking Iran.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall, Steve Trimble
In its attacks on Iran, Israel teaches a master class on gaining air superiority.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Protesters broke into the UK Royal Air Force’s main air transport base and sprayed red paint on two of the service’s Airbus A330 Voyager tankers.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The industrial joint venture company that will build the tri-national combat aircraft at the heart of the Global Combat Air Program has been christened Edgewing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall, Tony Osborne
After a grizzly past, Airbus hopes to give the A400M some claws to extend its life cycle.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
The blended wing body demonstrator from JetZero is intended to provide the basis for development of a new military tanker-transport and a midmarket airliner.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Fulco
The second Trump administration’s executive order signals a new, more aggressive phase in the U.S. effort to overcome dependency on Chinese drone supply chains.
Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has achieved its speed target with its Racer compound rotorcraft with the experimental aircraft flying at 240 kt. in April.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall, Tony Osborne
Airbus is exploring the concept of becoming the owner and operator of some A400M military airlifters to secure contracts with smaller air forces.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has agreed to explore opportunities with Electra.aero for the startup’s in-development EL9 ultra-short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jeremy Kariuki
The S-97 Raider is a high-speed scout and attack compound helicopter developed by Sikorsky Aircraft, featuring the innovative X2 Technology with a coaxial rotor system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Safran and its U.S. subsidiary can go ahead with a proposed $1.8 billion acquisition of Collins Aerospace’s actuation and flight control business from RTX.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Matthew Fulco
Defense tech startup Mach Industries has completed a $100 million Series B funding round led by venture capital (VC) firms Khosla Ventures and Bedrock.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Northrop Grumman announced June 18 that it will use the Scaled Composites Model 437 Vanguard aircraft as a new testbed to evaluate autonomy.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
A successful integration would see the H225M crew take full control of Airbus’ Flexrotor uncrewed aircraft system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
France has declared plans to acquire Saab’s GlobalEye airborne early warning platform to replace the country’s aging Boeing E-3F Sentry fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A low-end collaborative combat aircraft designed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works entered captive-carry testing within the last few weeks.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
French armament procurement agency DGA has selected Daher as one of five companies to fly a medium-altitude, long-endurance demonstrator for uncrewed ops.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
EURA—made up of MTU Aero Engines, Safran Helicopter Engines and Avio Aero—is planning tests of a demonstrator power and propulsion system in the early 2030s.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Lithuania has become the latest NATO member to select the Embraer C-390 as its future airlifter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Boeing is considering a bid on the U.S. Army’s Flight School Next program, but has not yet decided what role it could play.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Embraer is working to refine its evolution of the KC-390 over the coming year to define its maritime patrol aircraft and refueling boom strategy.
Aircraft & Propulsion