Defense

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.

The U.S. Space Force’s SSC wants Impulse Space to demonstrate its Mira spacecraft quickly conducting space domain awareness missions.

The aircraft rejoins Scaled’s growing developmental and experimental testbed fleet–dubbed “the Scaled Air Force” by Northrop.

The MOU was signed during a trip to Taiwan this week by an Oklahoma delegation led by Gov. Kevin Stitt.

Sweden’s armed forces can begin developing space capabilities after the country’s government allocated SEK1 billion ($100 million) to the plans.

Spain’s Indra and Navantia have signed an agreement with Kawasaki Heavy Industries to examine the Japanese company’s P-1 maritime patrol aircraft.

Washington will reportedly in 2025 assess Taiwan's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology's capabilities to assemble Raytheon FIM-92 Stingers.