Defense

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.

Lithuania is further stocking up on air defense equipment, signing deals with Saab and Kongsberg for short and medium-range systems.

The first Mwari deployed in Mozambique has returned recently to Paramount’s aircraft production facility at Wonderboom Airport for its major OEM inspection (C-check ).

KAI and Korean Air Aerospace Division have signed MOUs to support their bids to upgrade 36 of the country's Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawks for special operations.

A multitude of autonomous flying vehicles sharing airspace with crewed aircraft over a battlefield raises concerns about safety.

Salient Motion aims to develop and certify actuation systems for highly regulated industries such as aerospace, defense and advanced manufacturing.

All three parties—including Leidos-owned Dynetics—followed the same path to introduce the GBU-69 Small Glide Munition (SGM) nearly a decade ago.

The Racer is currently in maintenance after its first 8 hr. of flight testing, during which it achieved speeds of 227 kt. in June after just seven flights.

Belgium, Denmark and Romania had entered preliminary discussions as of December 2023.

The Munitions Directorate wants information on booster rockets with a diameter up to 32 in. and length up to 275 in.

Regent has started hardware and systems integration for its first full-scale electric seaglider prototype, keeping it on track for initial crewed sea trials planned for later this year.

The manufacturer is flight-testing the AW249 attack helicopter to meet Italian Army and international needs.

Based in Copenhagen, the fund is called Final Frontier.

EMBRAER signed an Industrial Cooperation Agreement (ICA) with Czech MOD, increasing workshare on the C-390 Millennium program for AERO VODOCHODY and providing knowledge exchange on C-390 maintenance to LOM PRAHA.

PRATT & WHITNEY opened $255m, 845,000 sq ft military engine program hub facility in Oklahoma City, OK.

CAE has 25-year, C$1.7b subcontract to provide pilot training for RCAF.

Czech ministers approved spending 11.3 billion Czech koruna ($490 million) for a pair of C-390s on Oct. 2.

The RTX unit said on Oct. 1 that it secured a contract for the evolution of the jamming pod it is already developing to replace the ALQ-99.

Saab and Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) have signed an agreement on airborne early warning (AEW) technology transfer, centered around the GlobalEye platform.

IATA and other players in the aviation sector are seeing more diverse consequences of the increasingly frequent occurrences of GNSS jamming and spoofing.

The South Korean military has publicly unveiled the Hyunmoo-5 ballistic missile, which it claims is the world’s largest ballistic missile armed with a conventional warhead.

The Army's next rotorcraft is still in development, but officials are planning its first upgrade—a big shift in the service's approach to aircraft acquisition.