Defense

Taiwan will spend NT$44.2 billion ($1.4 billion) to scale up manufacturing of uncrewed aircraft systems and become an Asia-Pacific drone production hub by 2030.

South Korea has come under concerted pressure from Trump to increase defense spending and to raise contributions toward the U.S. military footprint there.

India says it has inaugurated a third production line for the Tejas Mk. 1-A and is also scaling up its production of Hindustan Turbo Trainer-40s.

The U.S. Air Force, faced with ongoing readiness issues across much of its fleet, has issued a call to aircraft owners who are near bases to help out.

The European Union has given the go-ahead to the €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) European Defense Industry Program aimed at supporting local industry and Ukraine.

Earth-observation company Planet is projecting 20% sales growth in the medium term as governments bolster access to imagery and related data from space.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) awarded Planet a $12.8 million contract to provide AI-enabled maritime domain capabilities.

The industrial partners working on the Eurodrone uncrewed aircraft system have completed its critical design review.

The Turkish government has finally confirmed it will soon take delivery of surplus Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules from the UK, after a long process.

The Netherlands has joined the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program.

Airbus Helicopters is in discussions with city and state officials in California over potential sales of its Super Puma family of helicopters.

The European Commission is proposing four flagship programs in the latest step the European Union is taking to bolster its defenses.

Spanish defense electronics firm Indra has developed an in-house flight-testing capability supporting the development of a combat cloud network.

Japan’s IHI has placed an order for four SAR satellites from Iceye as part of a first step to build a constellation of Earth-imaging spacecraft.

ESA is closely looking at the ramifications for its own activities of a potential merger for the satellite businesses of Airbus, Leonardo and Thales.

The U.S. Army plans to match the 18-month acceleration for the schedule to field the baseline version of the Bell MV-75 tiltrotor.

The U.S. Air Force is reversing course on a major plan to change its modernization process by not standing up a new command.

Airbus Helicopters is planning to ramp up production of its new H160 twin-engine medium rotorcraft to up to 60 aircraft a year.

L3Harris says the company will try to sell the OA-1K Sky Warden to the Israeli Air Force.

The German parliament has approved funding for the government to place a top-up order for Evolved Seasparrow missions (ESSM) to safeguard its ships.

Berlin has formally placed an order for 20 additional Eurofighters for the German Air Force just days after securing budgetary approval for the buy.

The Pentagon has been seeking to impose unprecedented restrictions on journalists’ ability to cover the military for several months.

Airbus Helicopters test pilots have been putting the Racer compound rotorcraft through a series of trials for potential military roles.

Indonesia is nearing an agreement to acquire a batch of Chengdu J-10 fighters from China, according to in-country news outlets.

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