Defense

The European Union (EU) is kicking off a new round of competitions for collaborative defense R&D efforts with €1.07 billion ($1.1 billion) in funding for the 2025 European Defense Fund (EDF) work program.

Dassault Aviation has unveiled the UAE’s first F4 Rafale fighter jet.

The UK Royal Navy has declared full operational capability with its Leonardo AW/EH101 Merlin Mk. 4 fleet of amphibious assault helicopters.

The European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee is calling for more money to go into its defense industrial program to bolster the bloc’s preparedness.

The Federal Aviation Administration in a statement said the aircraft, operating as American Airlines Flight 5342, was on approach to DCA's Runway 33.

A crippling lack of key indigenous infrastructure and skills continues to hold back India’s defense industry, despite rising investment.

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Dassault’s emphasis on Rafale exports has borne fruit for the company in recent years, as has their focus on non-European markets.

The Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) C-2 is a medium airlifter that serves as the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s (JASDF) primary cargo lifter along with the C-130. More profiles of major military aircraft programs are available to Aviation Week Intelligence Network subscribers at awin.aviationweek.com.

Lightspeed Venture Partners led the $70 million Series A capital round.

Iran later tried to muddy the disclosure, deleting the reference to the Su-35.

The engine runs took place at Sikorsky’s facility in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Draken Europe has been awarded a three-year, £173 million ($215.2 million) Interim Medium Speed Operational Readiness Training Services contract.

ADS Chief Executive Kevin Craven warned that without an appropriate plan, the UK aerospace sector’s growth potential would remain “untapped.”

Airbus plans to provide an update on the technical assessment of a major space program when it publishes full-year results next month.

Lithuanian startup Airvolve has adopted horizontal-axis cyclorotor propulsion to develop a compact middle-mile logistics uncrewed air system.

India launched the second in a new series of navigation satellites, NVS-02, using a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle.

On the cover of Aviation Week’s Jan. 13, 1975, issue, two U.S. Air Force/Fairchild A-10 prototypes fly in formation over the Tehachapi Mountains about 20 mi. west of Edwards AFB, California.

The Bethesda, Maryland-based company reported a $1.3 billion reach-forward loss on a classified program within the Missiles & Fire Control (M&FC) business.

“This is not going to be a major restructuring of the Boeing Company,” Ortberg said Jan. 28 while discussing fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 financial results.

Warsaw said it expects deliveries in 2029-35.

Denmark’s political parties have agreed to spend $2 billion on strengthening defense capabilities in the Arctic and North Atlantic region, including Greenland.

Though the order is entitled “The Iron Dome for America,” the details of the concept extend far beyond Israel’s Iron Dome system.

The Albatroz UAS is a 500-kg, fixed-wing, twin-boom UAS that the company hopes to embark on the ship for trials as soon as June.

Airbus and Spanish shipbuilder Navantia have agreed to explore the navalization of the Sirtap UAS, potentially enabling it to operate from Juan Carlos I.