Defense

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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.

Even phantom vessels emit signals that satellites can detect.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on “Iron Dome for America.”

President Donald Trump’s State Department has announced that the U.S. export control system authorized a whopping $318 billion in foreign arms sales in 2024.

Textron Aviation received its first international sale of seven Beechcraft King Air 260 military multi-engine training aircraft from SkyAlyne and KF Aerospace.

Preliminary contracts have been signed for the transfer of assets of Italy’s Piaggio Aerospace to Turkey’s Baykar, ahead of the deal closing this spring.

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said the country would welcome Saudi Arabia into the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP).