Defense

The German government expects the first of the 737s to be converted into its P-8A Maritime Patrol Aircraft to take flight in November.

Italy has been approved to acquire Electronic Attack Mission Systems to equip a small fleet of converted Gulfstream G550 business jets.

Lockheed Martin-Sikorsky is studying the technology transfer of its X2 to KAI if the CH-53K King Stallion is for South Korea’s heavy-lift helicopter program.

Multiverse Computing will work with Airbus on the European Defense Fund-supported Enhanced Pilot Interfaces and Interactions for Fighter Cockpit program.

France has conducted the first qualification launch of the Aster 30 B1NT air- and missile-defense interceptor as it targets entry into service in 2026.

In 1979 the People’s Republic of China released a series of photographs of its weapons—mostly copies of Soviet equipment—continuing a policy of showing off some of its air, ground and sea capabilities.

The Black Hawk has spawned numerous variants and derivations over its 50-year career.

After killing the UH-60V Black Hawk upgrade, the Army has embarked on a nose-to-tail upgrade of the UH-60M.

Argentina’s defense spending has shrunk as a percentage of GDP in the last few years, requiring its operational needs to be met primarily through purchases of second-hand aircraft.

The Aurora concept includes two turbofan fan engines for horizontal thrust and four fans embedded into the blended wing body airframe for vertical lift.

AFRL’s Global Lightning prototyping effort began in 2018.

The semiconductors could increase power delivery and better manage heat in radar and radio communications systems, Raytheon said on Oct. 2.

Co-production with allies and partners is increasingly intertwined with U.S. efforts to revitalize the defense industrial base.

France is pressing ahead with efforts to field an enhanced standard of its Rafale multi-role fighter and pair it with an uncrewed combat aerial vehicle (UCAV).

Taiwan is scrapping its Advanced Defense Fighter program, saying the country’s military primes do not possess sufficiently matured technologies to proceed.

France plans to send Ukraine Dassault Mirage 2000 fighters in the first three months of 2025, says the country's Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu.

The startup aims for flight certification of a digital twin before the aircraft is physically built.

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.

U.S. Naval Air Systems Command said in a statement that initial testing has been completed and the Navy will continue to test updates as necessary.

Video and imagery from Ukraine published Oct. 5 appears to show the secretive, tailless UCAV being engaged and shot down by its fighter escort.

Oslo says it is also spending additional money to improve the aircraft’s availability.

The Netherlands has become the second nation in the Air Force Capability Coalition for Ukraine to deliver aircraft into the war-torn country.

IAF sources told local media India Today that the exercise took place at Eastern Air Command “a few months ago.”

Boeing has disclosed that it conducted the first flight of the Royal Thai Army’s AH-6i Little Bird in August.

Market research has started on a new intratheater airlifter program that could begin fielding hundreds of new aircraft after 2031.