Aircraft & Propulsion

France is pressing ahead with efforts to field an enhanced standard of its Rafale multi-role fighter and pair it with an uncrewed combat aerial vehicle (UCAV).

Taiwan is scrapping its Advanced Defense Fighter program, saying the country’s military primes do not possess sufficiently matured technologies to proceed.

France plans to send Ukraine Dassault Mirage 2000 fighters in the first three months of 2025, says the country's Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu.

The startup aims for flight certification of a digital twin before the aircraft is physically built.

Video and imagery from Ukraine published Oct. 5 appears to show the secretive, tailless UCAV being engaged and shot down by its fighter escort.

Oslo says it is also spending additional money to improve the aircraft’s availability.

The Netherlands has become the second nation in the Air Force Capability Coalition for Ukraine to deliver aircraft into the war-torn country.

Boeing has disclosed that it conducted the first flight of the Royal Thai Army’s AH-6i Little Bird in August.

Market research has started on a new intratheater airlifter program that could begin fielding hundreds of new aircraft after 2031.

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The aircraft rejoins Scaled’s growing developmental and experimental testbed fleet–dubbed “the Scaled Air Force” by Northrop.

The MOU was signed during a trip to Taiwan this week by an Oklahoma delegation led by Gov. Kevin Stitt.

Spain’s Indra and Navantia have signed an agreement with Kawasaki Heavy Industries to examine the Japanese company’s P-1 maritime patrol aircraft.

KAI and Korean Air Aerospace Division have signed MOUs to support their bids to upgrade 36 of the country's Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawks for special operations.

A multitude of autonomous flying vehicles sharing airspace with crewed aircraft over a battlefield raises concerns about safety.

The Racer is currently in maintenance after its first 8 hr. of flight testing, during which it achieved speeds of 227 kt. in June after just seven flights.

Regent has started hardware and systems integration for its first full-scale electric seaglider prototype, keeping it on track for initial crewed sea trials planned for later this year.

The manufacturer is flight-testing the AW249 attack helicopter to meet Italian Army and international needs.

Saab and Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) have signed an agreement on airborne early warning (AEW) technology transfer, centered around the GlobalEye platform.

IATA and other players in the aviation sector are seeing more diverse consequences of the increasingly frequent occurrences of GNSS jamming and spoofing.

Although short of the seven-day flight hoped for, Skydweller says it demonstrated feasibility of staying airborne for months on solar power and batteries.

The U.S. Army says it has built a transmission network using small high-altitude balloons to support soldiers.

Syracuse, New York-based SRC Inc. has unveiled an electronic support measures (ESM) payload for a Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA).

Germany needs to move forward with FCAS and finalize its pledge to buy 20 Eurofighters, the head of programs at MTU Aero Engines says.

A period of extraordinary growth in Swedish military spending is set to be extended as NATO's newest member continues to modernize.