Defense

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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The cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Oct. 19, 1970, issue featured the Yugoslav Soko Jastreb (Hawk) jet fighter.

Diehl’s IRIS-T SLM land-based air and missile defense system, which has been heavily used in Ukraine, has exercised its sea legs.

Turkish defense giant Aselsan has taken a lead role in Steel Dome—a homegrown air defense network to counter low-cost multicopter drones and hypersonic missiles.

“This year is a record in terms of investment in technologies,” Embraer President and CEO Francisco Gomes Neto says.

Three F-35s arrived at the Florennes Air Base on Oct. 13, marking the type’s official incorporation into the Belgian Air Force.

Airbus Helicopters is to absorb the fixed-wing uncrewed air system programs of Airbus-owned Survey Copter into its portfolio.

Sweden’s defense materiel agency FMV has contracted Saab for an expansion of its ongoing multi-phase study work into future combat aircraft development.

Cummings Aerospace has announced a 60-km range estimate for the 3D-printed Hellhound S3, a turbojet-powered, subsonic loitering munition and air interceptor.

The companies producing the highly in-demand Patriot PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhanced interceptor are continuing to bulk up their production capacity.

Two companies have unveiled starkly different approaches to meeting the U.S. Army’s pending requirement for a Low-Altitude Stalk and Strike Ordnance system.

The U.S. Army will start executing within a month a fielding plan for acquiring and delivering Launched Effects-Short Range air vehicles.

Ukraine’s ability to take down Russian drones is largely limited by the availability of systems to engage them, rather than the technology to do so, a senior U.S. Army air defense official says.

The U.S. Army expects to begin testing the second iteration of the Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missile soon to get a production go-ahead soon after.

A year after the U.S. Army appeared to turn its back on a program to develop a future lower-tier missile interceptor, the program may be back on the agenda.

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Lockheed Martin has unveiled its once-secret concept for the proposed, extended-range variant of the Precision Strike Missile, which is known as Increment 4.

Boeing is progressing on its design of an all-new missile for the U.S. Army's Indirect Fire Protection Capability system ahead of an expected downselect next year.

Collaborative Combat Aircraft may soon be coming to the U.S. Army’s acquisition plans.

Boeing and Leonardo are teaming up to compete for the U.S. Army’s future helicopter training program to replace the service’s current UH-72 Lakota fleet.