Defense

Aviation Week Staff
The Kazakhstan Air Defense Forces continues to build up its fleet, greeting the arrival of two Czech-made Aircraft Industries L-410 light utility turboprops at Aktobe airfield on Dec. 5.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Congressional authorizers want a broad relook at U.S. Air Force and Navy tactical aircraft force structure.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Signing of the DCA comes ahead of Sweden’s entry into NATO, which continues to be delayed as both Hungary and Turkey have yet to ratify its membership.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Thierry Dubois
Safran may take the Italian government to court after Rome blocked its purchase of Collins Aerospace's actuation and flight control systems business from RTX.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Thierry Dubois
With the Ariane 6 seeing progress at last and Avio leaving Arianespace, the European Space Agency takes steps toward a competition for Europe’s future launchers.
Space

HENSOLDT GROUP agreed to acquire ESG ELEKTRONIKSYSTEM- UND LOGISTIK in deal valued at €675m to accelerate its sensor solutions strategy by building on ESG’s software engineering and systems integration expertise.

Defense

By Garrett Reim
DARPA has selected 14 companies to study designs for integrated lunar infrastructure as part of its 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) Capability Study.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The entire Bell Boeing V-22 fleet has been grounded.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The payloads should be able to find, fix and track maritime ships, with weapons-level targeting accuracy, a request for information released on Dec. 5 says.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon on Dec. 6 announced another drawdown of materiel for Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
NASA has amended plans to acquire a U.S. Deorbit Vehicle capable of executing a controlled deorbit of the International Space Station.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is looking to potentially outsource its training of NATO pilots on fast jets.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Michael Bruno
Eaton is tapping a veteran Collins Aerospace executive to take over from Nanda Kumar, the longtime president of Eaton Aerospace.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Guy Norris
The Boeing 747-400 will work in conjunction with Stratolaunch’s Roc carrier aircraft to conduct air launches for hypersonic tests in multiple U.S. locations.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Paul De Lia
Leveraging cloud-native architectures can help the U.S. military modernize electromagnetic spectrum operations.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Matthew Fulco
Such hurdles as espionage and supply chain issues stand in the way of a more reliable indigenous defense industry.
Supply Chain

By Brian Everstine
The need to counter faster, more powerful drones at a large scale is becoming the “problem of our time,” a top Defense Department weapons buyer says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Guy Norris
Sweeping changes and streamlining plan targets fourfold profit increase by 2027 and exit from electric propulsion sector.
Aircraft & Propulsion

FOKKER has EASA STC to convert G550 to maritime sureveillance aircraft for operation by the JAPAN COAST GUARD.

Defense

By Mark Carreau
The 55th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 8 Christmas mission, the first by humans to fly around the Moon and send back imagery of the Earth, is just days away.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has shifted search operations for the remaining missing crewmembers of a V-22 that crashed near Japan into a recovery mission.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The Gamma variant is scheduled to follow into development the first two variants of the Space Development Agency's Tranche 2 Tracking Layer.
Space

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) relented on Pentagon nominees, clearing the Senate to approve almost all of the senior officers awaiting promotions.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
German defense electronics firm Hensoldt is snapping up its domestic competitor ESG for €675 million ($729 million).
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Thierry Dubois
The uncrewed combat air vehicles that may accompany the Rafale F5 standard will be designed to enter highly defended zones, Dassault's CEO said Dec. 5.
Aircraft & Propulsion