Defense

Airbus Helicopters is in discussions with city and state officials in California over potential sales of its Super Puma family of helicopters.

The European Commission is proposing four flagship programs in the latest step the European Union is taking to bolster its defenses.

Spanish defense electronics firm Indra has developed an in-house flight-testing capability supporting the development of a combat cloud network.

Japan’s IHI has placed an order for four SAR satellites from Iceye as part of a first step to build a constellation of Earth-imaging spacecraft.

ESA is closely looking at the ramifications for its own activities of a potential merger for the satellite businesses of Airbus, Leonardo and Thales.

The U.S. Army plans to match the 18-month acceleration for the schedule to field the baseline version of the Bell MV-75 tiltrotor.

The U.S. Air Force is reversing course on a major plan to change its modernization process by not standing up a new command.

Airbus Helicopters is planning to ramp up production of its new H160 twin-engine medium rotorcraft to up to 60 aircraft a year.

L3Harris says the company will try to sell the OA-1K Sky Warden to the Israeli Air Force.

The German parliament has approved funding for the government to place a top-up order for Evolved Seasparrow missions (ESSM) to safeguard its ships.

Berlin has formally placed an order for 20 additional Eurofighters for the German Air Force just days after securing budgetary approval for the buy.

The Pentagon has been seeking to impose unprecedented restrictions on journalists’ ability to cover the military for several months.

Airbus Helicopters test pilots have been putting the Racer compound rotorcraft through a series of trials for potential military roles.

Indonesia is nearing an agreement to acquire a batch of Chengdu J-10 fighters from China, according to in-country news outlets.

Aviation Week Network spoke with Jim Gabinetti of The Lee Company to explore how innovative valve alternatives address these limitations while delivering improved operational capabilities.

The cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Oct. 19, 1970, issue featured the Yugoslav Soko Jastreb (Hawk) jet fighter.

Diehl’s IRIS-T SLM land-based air and missile defense system, which has been heavily used in Ukraine, has exercised its sea legs.

Turkish defense giant Aselsan has taken a lead role in Steel Dome—a homegrown air defense network to counter low-cost multicopter drones and hypersonic missiles.

“This year is a record in terms of investment in technologies,” Embraer President and CEO Francisco Gomes Neto says.

Three F-35s arrived at the Florennes Air Base on Oct. 13, marking the type’s official incorporation into the Belgian Air Force.

Airbus Helicopters is to absorb the fixed-wing uncrewed air system programs of Airbus-owned Survey Copter into its portfolio.

Sweden’s defense materiel agency FMV has contracted Saab for an expansion of its ongoing multi-phase study work into future combat aircraft development.

Cummings Aerospace has announced a 60-km range estimate for the 3D-printed Hellhound S3, a turbojet-powered, subsonic loitering munition and air interceptor.

The companies producing the highly in-demand Patriot PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhanced interceptor are continuing to bulk up their production capacity.

Two companies have unveiled starkly different approaches to meeting the U.S. Army’s pending requirement for a Low-Altitude Stalk and Strike Ordnance system.