Defense

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.

An English Electric T.4 jet trainer flies with a P.1B fighter on its wing. Each aircraft is carrying two de Havilland Firestreak infrared homing missiles and a ventral tank for extra fuel. The T.4 was powered by two Rolls-Royce Avon turbojets with afterburners. Photo: Ron Appelbe.

Although short of the seven-day flight hoped for, Skydweller says it demonstrated feasibility of staying airborne for months on solar power and batteries.

The lack of major obvious damage again showed that Israeli and U.S. missile defenses intercepted the most dangerous incoming missiles from Iran.

PRATT & WHITNEY has $1.3b contract to continue work on the F135 Engine Core Upgrade (ECU) for enhanced durability.

Under the agreements around basing at the Payerne air base near Geneva, takeoffs and landings by the stealthy fighter will be limited to 4,200 a year.

The funding will be provided by the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition Hub through the CHIPS and Science Act.

Two U.S. Air Force F-16 Block 50s finished the month with 45 flight hours with the ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) aboard.

NATO's new Secretary General Mark Rutte identified higher defense production across alliance members as one of his top priorities as he formally took on the role.

The U.S. Army says it has built a transmission network using small high-altitude balloons to support soldiers.

A growing reputation from global air forces is putting Italy’s International Flight Training School on the map.

DASSAULT AVIATION MRO INDIA is being established in Uttar Pradesh to support Mirage 2000s for Indian Air Force.

The company recently used the antenna system to support the checkout phase of satellites it built for the Space Development Agency (SDA).

Syracuse, New York-based SRC Inc. has unveiled an electronic support measures (ESM) payload for a Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA).

The Replicator 2 plan will be submitted with the fiscal 2026 budget request.

Germany needs to move forward with FCAS and finalize its pledge to buy 20 Eurofighters, the head of programs at MTU Aero Engines says.

Dassault Aviation is to create a new subsidiary, Dassault Aviation MRO India (DAMROI), dedicated exclusively to MRO of its military activities.

Raytheon has delivered the first AN/TPY-2 radar for Saudi Arabia.