The EU has approved funding to support member state efforts to buy more defense equipment collectively, including Diehl IRIS-T and MBDA Mistral systems.
The transition from Biden to Trump is set to be more turbulent than most given the scale of policy divergence, but how will defense spending be affected?
How will a second Trump administration affect the defense industry and global alliances? The McCain Institute’s executive director joins our editors to discuss.
The Kawasaki Heavy Industries P-1 is a maritime patrol, anti-submarine warfare fixed-wing patrol aircraft in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. More profiles of major military aircraft programs are available to Aviation Week Intelligence Network subscribers at awin.aviationweek.com.
FDH DEFENSE AFTERMARKET (formerly Unical Defense) expanded its global distribution partnership with CIRCOR Aerospace to include additional 11 territories in Middle East/Asia Pacific and new product lines from Hauppauge, NY.
EATON has Eaton $3.5m USAF Research Lab (AFRL) contract to develop a new podded refueling boom, named Small Hybrid Aerial Refueling Kit (SHARK), for traditional/non-traditional tanker aircraft, including autonomous systems.
The additional orders come after the Air Force selected Anduril and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) for CCA Increment 1 prototypes in April.
The World Defense Show (WDS) 2026, to be held in Riyadh, from 8-12 February, has secured the record participation of more than 100 defence sector companies from China.
China has showcased its progression in unmanned combat aerial system technology and innovation, displaying the CH-9 and Wing Loong-X for the first time at Zhuhai Airshow.
The Italian parliament has backed the country’s involvement in the Global Combat Air Program with Japan and the UK, keeping the program on track to move into its next phase.
Ten years before the fleet’s first acknowledged use in combat against Houthi weapons facilities in Yemen, a Lockheed Martin F-35C from U.S. Navy Air Test and Evaluation Squadron VX-23 appeared on the cover of Aviation Week’s Nov. 17, 2014, issue, banking during its approach to the USS Nimitz off San Diego. The photo was taken from an F/A-18 chase aircraft.
The early planning comes as the service is standing up its new Integrated Capabilities Command to look across its mission sets for new acquisition programs.
ITALIAN COAST GUARD ordered an ATR 42-600 Maritime Patrol (MP) aircraft, with Leonardo’s ATOS (Airborne Tactical Observation and Surveillance) modular mission system, under fleet renewal plan for three older MPs based on -400/-500.
