Defense

A former US Navy Boeing F/A-18 Hornet pilot, now flying with the Kuwait Air Force (KAF) recently passed a major flying milestone. Alan Warnes met him.

A period of extraordinary growth in Swedish military spending is set to be extended as NATO's newest member continues to modernize.

KAI is working to improve maintenance of the FA-50 after Poland expressed dissatisfaction with the availability of the light combat aircraft.

EMBRAER delivered the seventh C-390 to the BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE.

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NOAA expects Lockheed to deliver the fully instrumented aircraft in 2030.

The budget reprogrammings allow the Army to start buying several new capabilities.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is eager to position the Sooner State as a high-tech manufacturing hub.

Flight tests of the CLS-300 are planned for the second half of 2025.

The third iteration of actively electronically scanned array radars for the Eurofighter Typhoon has made its long-awaited first flight in the UK.

The factory in England is home to the only secure facility in the UK with capability to manufacture gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductors, the MOD says.

Lift Aircraft has won a U.S. Army contract to develop and demo a modular medical payload that enables its Hexa eVTOL to deliver blood and evacuate a casualty.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago, Kyiv has relied on a steady pace of innovation in the use of UAS and other tech to fight back.

European Military Rotorcraft Engine Alliance (EURA) is a 50:50 joint venture of France’s Safran Helicopter Engines and Germany’s MTU Aero Engines.

Germany is moving forward with the purchase of additional Amraam missiles and Rolling Airframe Missiles (RAM).

Lockheed is not giving up on the Royal Thai Air Force F-16A/B replacement program, despite the service already saying it has selected the Saab JAS 39E/F Gripen.

Ted Colbert’s abrupt departure marks the first of possibly many management changes to improve the airframer’s course.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Aviation Week's Steve Trimble is just back from a trip to Israel, including its northern border. Listen to his observations from the frontline and what the fighting tells us about the future of warfare.

BOEING reports that due to strike airplane production in Washington state is temporarily paused, including work on 737 MAX, 767, 777/777X, P-8, KC-46A Tanker, E-7 Wedgetail; work at fabrication sites in Washington/Oregon are also paused.

Pillar II covers a bevy of advanced defense capabilities.

Variants of the 737 are active with 21 non-U.S. militaries and figure prominently into these nations’ transport and maritime capabilities.

Aerojet will supply the first stage and the advanced, reignitable upper stages for the hit-to-kill GPI.

Likely being developed to meet Ukrainian needs, Project Brakestop will be a rapid development and procurement program.

The Royal Netherlands Air Force is set to become the second European air arm after Norway’s to depend entirely on the F-35 for combat aircraft operations.