Defense

Aviation Week’s team discusses Air India’s massive aircraft order and defense highlights from Aero India.

Under new leadership and with increased scrutiny, the U.S. Air Force wants to make ABMS operational with new awards and a different approach to testing.

New CEOs of both Enstrom and MD Helicopters can forge a new niche in the rotorcraft market for their companies.

Red Flag, the service’s most important combat training event, shifts to overwater for the first time in its 48-year history.

Government officials want companies that will serve nation’s civil and military space needs.

The new procurement strategy is intended to boost competition.

INDONESIAN AIR FORCE took delivery of first of five C-130J-30s. LOCKHEED MARTIN has now delivered >520 C-130Js.

HENSOLDT, Germany has order from CAE Aviation, Luxembourg for second PrecISR 1000 multi-mission surveillance radar.

In the course of a Flight Readiness Review, NASA and SpaceX postponed launch of the Crew-6 mission by one day.

Montana Aerospace, a supplier of complex lightweight components and structures for aerospace and other sectors, surprised stakeholders with good news Feb. 22.

Terran Orbital has won a $2.4 billion contract to build 300 small satellites for Rivada Space Networks.

The partnership is planned to expand to include satellites and defense systems.

Ukraine is not likely to see many of the high-end air defense systems the West has pledged for several months to years.

Aerobotix and Automated Solutions Australia (ASA) are ramping up their partnership for robotic and automated development.

UAE's Strategic Defense Fund has debuted UAE-based Helio Aviation Technologies and invested in U.S. startup Mayman Aerospace.

New Frontier Aerospace delivered the first Mjolnir component under a $750,000 contract awarded by National Security Innovation Capital in August 2021.

Indonesia acquired five Super Hercules via Direct Commercial Sales (DCS) as part of the country’s massive air force modernization effort.

Aero India highlights India’s ambition to move beyond simple assembly to creating advanced, exportable aircraft design.

RHEINMETALL, Germany has LOI from Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to supply F-35 center fuselages.

THINKOM, CA has production contract to supply an airborne, multi-band, conformal antenna solution.

Vast Space, a startup attempting to develop a space station with artificial gravity, has acquired Launcher.

Serbia is continuing negotiations with France’s Dassault Aviation about the purchase of Rafale fighters.

The United Arab Emirates is understood to have gone through with a controversial deal to buy Chinese advanced jet trainers.

As the USAF looks to develop uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft to fly with future fighters, the service is also rethinking how it organizes these fleets.

Boeing, Saab and Northrop Grumman have responded to a NATO request for information for airborne early warning aircraft.