Defense

The UK will publish its Strategic Defense Review within two weeks, says former NATO Secretary Gen. George Robertson, who has helped lead the effort.

The cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s May 29, 2000, issue featured the Sukhoi S-37 (not to be confused with the Su-37) forward swept wing fighter prototype in flight near the Zhukovsky Flight Test Center outside of Moscow.

A top U.S. military official confirmed that satellites are demonstrating aircraft tracking as the E-7A program faces a cancellation threat from the Pentagon.

The Golden Dome air and missile defense system will be fully operational in two and a half to three years and cost about $175 billion, President Donald Trump says.

DARPA is claiming a power-beaming distance record after transmitting energy using a laser over 8.6 km (5.3 mi).

A team of Pentagon acquisition leaders and company officials met regularly to find ways to fix the slow progress of a new Air Force One.

The U.S. Air Force wants to upgrade or replace the towed-decoy system on the Rockwell International B-1B Lancer bomber.

Tusas Engine Industries has revealed the designation for the indigenous engine that will power Turkey's homegrown combat aircraft.

Malaysia looks set to become the latest customer for Leonardo’s AW149 utility helicopter.

Elbit Systems CEO Butzi Machlis says the company is seeing “huge interest” in its Iron Beam technology.

The Ascent joint venture of Babcock and Lockheed Martin secured a £300 million contract to train rear crew personnel for the UK Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.

ESA and the European Commission want to come to an agreement around what a future Earth-observation system should look like in advance of funding decisions.

Lockheed Martin says it has proposed to establish several in-country MRO capabilities in the Philippines to support the F-16 and C-130 fleets.

Havelsan, Türkiye’s software and systems company under the Turkish Armed Forces Foundation, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Malaysia’s technology group Dagang NeXchange Berhad (DNeX).

South Korea's KAI and DAPA say the first production model of the KF-21 has entered final assembly, a significant milestone for the domestically produced fighter.

The complexity of the security situation in the South China Sea and the de facto limited budget means that the Philippine Air Force's (PAF) modernization objectives face tough competition with other services.

The U.S. Space Force has received fielding approval for its new Counter Communications Systems Meadowlands jammer.

The second U.S. Air Force prototype of a Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) has moved into the ground testing phase.

Australia has launched Mission Talon Strike, an Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator initiative aimed at domestically developing loitering munitions.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is honing in on collecting information related to foreign cartel organizations.

A U.S. agency finished building the first B61-13 nuclear gravity bomb nearly a year early.

TransDigm said on May 19 that it would acquire highly engineered servo valves provider Servotronics for $110 million.

Boeing has resumed deliveries of the KC-46 tanker to the U.S. Air Force following an extended delay.

Europe is becoming a staging ground for dealmaking, driven by an anticipated wave of military spending.

The North Korean military has unveiled a new class of domestically developed air-to-air missile as well as a standoff weapon kit.