The French government and Safran are in talks about upgrading the M88 engine for the Dassault Rafale combat aircraft, in part to sustain industrial know-how.
British defense company Babcock is working with Korea Aerospace Industries to explore whether the two can partner on military flying training in Europe.
Canada’s SkyAlyn has ordered 19 PC-21 turboprop trainers from Switzerland’s Pilatus, which it will use to provide training to the Royal Canadian Air Force.
The future high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance fleet’s first delivery and flight highlight progress made despite the stop-work order.
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The hybrid-electric, STOL aircraft demonstrated its lower acoustic signature and potential transport uses in distributed military operations during an event.
The chief of the UK Royal Air Force wants to replace its Hawk T2 advanced jet trainers as soon as possible after a series of technical problems with the type.
The USAF is trying to better understand options that may exist to field small uncrewed aircraft systems in command-and-control or electronic warfare roles.
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Red Cat Holdings has won a contract to deliver thousands of small quadcopters for the U.S. Army’s Tranche 2 of the Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) program.
The companies developing the Praetorian self-defense suite for the Eurofighter Typhoon have begun development work for a new-generation system for the aircraft.
Turkey’s Baykar has completed a takeoff and landing of its Bayraktar TB3 uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) from the Anadolu amphibious assault ship (LHD).
