Defense

U.S. Air Force officials continue to voice concerns that the Army is not prioritizing protection of air bases.

Israel’s F-15 acquisition aligns closely with the Aviation Week Intelligence Network’s (AWIN) 2025 Military Aircraft Market Forecast’s conclusions regarding acquisitions across the Middle East and North Africa region in the coming decade.

Boeing is reportedly considering potential asset sales as it struggles to improve its finances.

Leonardo expects the industrial agreement on the trinational Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) to be finalized before year’s end.

The U.S. military’s aeromedical evacuation (AE) personnel have become very specialized and good at what they do.

America’s defense industrial base is straining to meet rising demand for weapons systems driven by a worsening threat environment from Europe to the Indo-Pacific.

The ALQ-254(V)1 Viper Shield system passed a safety of flight check, clearing the system for flight tests to begin “soon” and deliveries to start in late 2025.

The UMCS is initially developed to operate the Boeing MQ-25 Stingray on board Navy carriers.

The M-LRPSM launcher must be integrated on a vehicle used by an Infantry Brigade Combat Team.

Poland has agreed to buy 32 F-35s and the Czech Republic says it will take 24 of the stealth fighters.

The orders were announced during the European Rotors helicopter exposition in Amsterdam Nov. 5.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense signed the $5.2 billion order for 25 F-15IA fighters, with deliveries beginning in 2031.

Saab plans to fly an artificial intelligence aid developed by Helsing on the Gripen E combat aircraft.

The program is currently in the assessment and risk reduction phase.

The milestone clears the upgrade for the carrier-based airborne early warning aircraft to move toward a critical design review in 2025.

The J-35A is set to make its debut appearance at this year’s Zhuhai Airshow.

The fuselage work will be conducted in-house at a facility located at Beech Field on Textron Aviation’s East Campus.

Germany Defense Minister Boris Pistorius waited less than 24 hr. to travel to Paris to meet his French counterpart, Sebastien Lecornu.

Military spending rose 14% over President Biden’s four-year term to $841.4 billion in the fiscal 2024 appropriations bill signed into law last December.

The new contract will replace the current Typhoon Total Availability eNterprise (TyTAN) arrangement in 2026.

Hensoldt, with partners Lufthansa Technik and Bombardier, recently celebrated the first flight of the heavily modified Global 6000.

The efforts come at a time that Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and elsewhere have demonstrated the risk to UAS attacks at sea.

South Korea has selected Konan Technology to develop artificial intelligence (AI) software for the country’s future uncrewed air vehicles (UAV).

Airbus is proposing the development of the System and Teaming Advanced Research (STAR) demonstrator.

This year, that operational requirement comes as the U.S. Air Force also undergoes a large-scale overhaul of its force structure.