Defense

With Tokyo awarding contracts to build two new Aegis System Equipped Vessels, Lockheed Martin believes there are still details to be ironed out about the new SPY-7 Aegis destroyer.

The Defense Department is going shopping in a bid to gain information on everything from loitering attack munitions to Collaborative Combat Aircraft.

Aviation Week Intelligence Network's 2025 Military Aircraft Market Forecast indicates that the Asia-Pacific region will lead the world in open requirements and opportunity over the coming decade.

Miller comes from Northrop Grumman, where he was the vice president for engineering in its aeronautics sector for a year.

Raytheon’s complaint against the MDA was also filed Nov. 6, but the document is sealed by the court because it includes classified and proprietary information.

Russia used the event in China for the Su-57’s international debut.

The EU has approved funding to support member state efforts to buy more defense equipment collectively, including Diehl IRIS-T and MBDA Mistral systems.

The transition from Biden to Trump is set to be more turbulent than most given the scale of policy divergence, but how will defense spending be affected?

A massive eight-engined Boeing B-52 ‘Buff’ is making its first ever appearance at a Middle East airshow.

BIAS 24 marks the last international air show for the BAE Systems Hawk Mk 65s of the Royal Saudi Air Force’s ‘Saudi Hawks’ display team.

The third issue of Show Business at the Bahrain International Airshow leads with a story on Bahrain’s Amal AlBinali.

Packed halls and a buzzing chalet line marked the first day of the Bahrain International Airshow.

The U.S. and its allies have yet to reduce reliance on Beijing for materials that are essential to the defense industrial base.

How will a second Trump administration affect the defense industry and global alliances? The McCain Institute’s executive director joins our editors to discuss.

The Kawasaki Heavy Industries P-1 is a maritime patrol, anti-submarine warfare fixed-wing patrol aircraft in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. More profiles of major military aircraft programs are available to Aviation Week Intelligence Network subscribers at awin.aviationweek.com.

The additional orders come after the Air Force selected Anduril and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) for CCA Increment 1 prototypes in April.

The new systems under Replicator 1.2 will be delivered by August 2025.

Warden also indicated she does not expect major U.S. defense policy shifts with the pending change of presidential administration in Washington.

The U.S. Air Force approved Merlin’s airworthiness plan to demonstrate parts of the Merlin Pilot autonomy suite in KC-135s.

The World Defense Show (WDS) 2026, to be held in Riyadh, from 8-12 February, has secured the record participation of more than 100 defence sector companies from China.

China has showcased its progression in unmanned combat aerial system technology and innovation, displaying the CH-9 and Wing Loong-X for the first time at Zhuhai Airshow.

The Italian parliament has backed the country’s involvement in the Global Combat Air Program with Japan and the UK, keeping the program on track to move into its next phase.

Ten years before the fleet’s first acknowledged use in combat against Houthi weapons facilities in Yemen, a Lockheed Martin F-35C from U.S. Navy Air Test and Evaluation Squadron VX-23 appeared on the cover of Aviation Week’s Nov. 17, 2014, issue, banking during its approach to the USS Nimitz off San Diego. The photo was taken from an F/A-18 chase aircraft.