Defense

Taiwan’s state-backed drone industry alliance is expeditiously decoupling from China-based supply chains, Chairman Hu Kai-Hung tells Aviation Week.

The C-130’s new role opens the door for a novel class of mass-produced, low-cost cruise missiles to enter U.S. and foreign weapon inventories.

Companies say they are ready to support the White House’s Golden Dome initiative. They just need the green light.

The new Trump tariffs and trade wars could indelibly alter the global aerospace and defense industry.

U.S. Army officials are beginning to grasp the challenges of President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome initiative.

During a press conference with Netanyahu last week, Trump announced that the U.S. would soon reveal its first $1 trillion defense budget.

Italy’s ELT Group has unveiled a new modular electromagnetically silent anti-drone system.

The UK defense ministry has launched a search to find a replacement for the British army’s Thales Watchkeeper uncrewed aircraft system.

China has deployed an airborne early warning aircraft to Egypt for exercises.

The air forces of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and South Korea will cooperate on the Korea Aerospace Industries KF-21 fighter program.

A notice to industry calls for new technologies to integrate on USAF's upcoming Boeing E-7A Wedgetail fleet, while allowing for the possibility that the service could field another platform to serve the role.

Taiwanese drone manufacturer Thunder Tiger braced itself for a painful impact when Trump imposed a 32% tariff on most imports from the island.

The U.S. State Department has approved a possible sale of an unspecified number of Leonardo TH-73A helicopters to the Philippines.

Built to carry 72 aircraft with the most powerful engines ever put into a vessel, the USS Saratoga (CV-3)—the U.S. Navy’s first “fast” aircraft carrier—was launched at the New York Shipbuilding Corp. shipyard in Camden, New Jersey, on April 7, 1925, and featured on the cover of our April 20 edition.

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India’s defense development agency demonstrated an indigenous, land-based, high-energy laser in a live shoot-down event of a fixed-wing drone on April 13.

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has unveiled the second version of the XQ-58A Valkyrie.

The U.S. Army is overhauling most of its major aircraft fleets, including rotary-wing, C4ISR and uncrewed platforms.

Lawmakers are pressing the Secret Service to explain its role in a series of anti-collision alerts reported by aircraft near Reagan National Airport March 1.

By mid-July a foreign partner could be selected to help India develop a new turbofan engine to power a future version of the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft.

U.S. satellite launch firm Rocket Lab has joined a growing number of foreign companies to help advance hypersonic weapon capabilities for the UK.

Taiwan's Tron Future Tech sees burgeoning global demand for its counter-unmanned aircraft systems.

Airbus is discussing internally the level of required investment to address growing defense demand, CEO Guillaume Faury says.

The UK has launched a tech challenge to identify ways to track “government assets or representatives” if global navigation satellite systems are disrupted.

The Swedish government has asked its parliament for approval to further pursue export sales of GlobalEye AEW aircraft to Denmark and Saab JAS 39E/Fs to Peru.