Defense

President Donald Trump wants to hike the Pentagon’s budget by 50% to $1.5 trillion in fiscal 2027.

President Donald Trump attacked the share buyback and executive pay practices of leading large U.S. aerospace and defense prime contractors.

UK defense engineering firm Babcock has teamed with Estonia air defense startup Frankenburg Technologies to work on providing a maritime launch system.

The U.S. subsidiary of Spain’s Indra Group announced a $342 million contract under the FAA’s Radar System Replacement program.

U.S. helicopter-borne special operations and law enforcement personnel on Jan. 7 seized two oil tankers in separate hemispheres.

Bangladesh could acquire JF-17 Thunder combat aircraft from Pakistan as part of a growing cooperation pact between the air arms of the two countries.

The program looks poised to thrive in a world where the U.S. has alienated its best friends.

Thirty-five years ago, the cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Jan. 8, 1990, issue featured a full-scale model of the General Dynamics/NASA ejector-lift E-7A short-takeoff-vertical-landing supersonic fighter design mounted 40 ft. above the floor in the then-new 80 X 120-ft. test section of Ames Research Center's low-speed wind tunnel.

The Ukrainian Air Force claims to have shot down around 1,000 Russian cruise missiles and one-way attack drones with its donated F-16s.

The European Union is to support research and technology efforts on the development of small turbofan engines for CCAs.

The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin have agreed to more than triple the annual output of Patriot PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors.

Aerospace and defense electronics company Teledyne RISI has agreed to pay $1.5 million to the U.S. for providing nonconforming aircraft parts to the military.

The Pentagon says it has agreed to boost output of Patriot PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors to 2,000 missiles per year.

Deliveries of the F 35A are expected to begin in 2031, with Full Operational Capability targeted for 2035. The service’s Gripen lease has been extended to 2035 to cover the gap.

After years of struggle, will 2026 bring a turnaround for the NH90 helicopter program?

ReElement Technologies has secured a $200 million investment from Transition Equity Partners to ramp up critical minerals production in Marion, Indiana.

The U.S. military staged one of the most daring, complex and successful military raids in modern history on Venezuela.

Cambium Biomaterials, a California-based startup that manufactures advanced materials for aerospace and defense, raised $100 million in a funding round.

Germany’s Rheinmetall and missile manufacturer MBDA are to create a joint venture for naval air defense lasers.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says it was “unfair” to banish his country from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and has called for Ankara to be readmitted to the project.

Pakistan has revealed a new conventionally armed air-launched cruise missile with a range of up to 600 km (373 mi.) following a successful test of the weapon.

Turkish defense electronics company Aselsan says key elements of its Siper 1 long-range air and missile defense system have completed battery acceptance trials.

The American system of innovation is like a quantum system: It is nondeterministic, everywhere all at once, exploring a multitude of possibilities.

Automated Black Hawk; Eve’s eVTOL flies; Arctic auroral radar; controlling thin wings.

U.S. soldiers and law enforcement personnel captured President Nicolás Maduro in a raid involving scores of combat aircraft and specially equipped helicopters.