Defense

Panama has finalized its deal to start operating Embraer A-29 Super Tucanos.

When non-CO2 effects are taken into consideration, the maximum lifecycle reduction in emissions possible with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is less than 50%.

Four Michigan-based FBOs have received electric aircraft charging infrastructure through a partnership between Avflight and Beta Technologies.

Bird Aerosystems has secured a first batch of orders to bring a laser-based directed infrared countermeasures self-protection system to smaller aircraft.

Turkish industry is working on two missiles very similar to the MBDA Meteor. Now it seems we may finally know part of the reason why.

The Swiss government has opted to forgo key features in its Hermes 900 UAS because of repeated development delays.

France says it has ordered a counter-drone laser system as a demonstrator with an eye on potentially fielding a system around 2030.

China has unveiled its latest nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal, featuring a new variant of the liquid-fueled DF-5.

Dallas-based private equity firm Trive Capital has launched an advanced materials provider, Canopy Aerospace & Defense.

Planned investments for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) include several key procurements across the domains of air mobility, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), training, air combat capability, and unmanned systems.

Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control received its biggest contract in the segment’s history, a $9.8 billion award from the U.S. Army.

SNC has begun test flights for the U.S. Air Force’s Survivable Airborne Operations Center, about five months after it began work on the first airframe.

F-35 deliveries have continued to be delayed despite steps to incentivize timely handovers, a new government watchdog report says.

The U.S. Space Force is racing to deploy a batch of National Security Space Launch missions before the end of the year.

The successor of the Charles-de-Gaulle aircraft carrier will embark radically different aircraft, including UAS, the naval chief of staff says.

AeroVironment announced Sept. 3 that it has delivered two prototype counter-drone laser weapon systems to the U.S. Army.

The People’s Liberation Army unveiled two previously unseen UCAVs and two CCAs during the Sept. 3 Victory Day parade in Beijing

China unveiled a new generation of anti-surface and long-range strike weapons at its Victory Day parade, underscoring its growing area-denial capabilities.

In an executive order, Trump adds NASA employees—53% of which are union members—to a growing list of federal workers exempt from collective bargaining rights.

Last week NATO released its official statistics for alliance member defense spending covering the period up to 2025, which made for interesting reading.

Startup AIR has received FAA Experimental Airworthiness Certification for its two-seat eVTOL to begin flight testing in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Israel has launched its latest surveillance satellite, the Ofek 19, to augment its in-space intelligence gathering capability with the addition of SAR.

Ellsworth AFB is preparing for the stealth bomber, but no arrival date has been announced for the lagging program.

The cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Sept. 11, 1995, featured a model of the command-and-control warfare version of the F/A-18F, originally proposed by McDonnell Douglas as a successor to the U.S. Navy's EA-6B standoff/support jammer, undergoing wind tunnel tests.

South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace and WB Group are establishing a joint venture to localize production of the CGR-080 surface-to-surface missile in Poland.