Defense

An F-35B damaged 2.5 years ago during a crash landing will be fixed and returned to the fleet, says the Air National Guard pilot who ejected from the aircraft.

Work is progressing on the UK’s big delta-wing fighter demonstrator, designed to derisk development of the trinational Global Combat Air Program.

Defunding the Boeing E-7A program would present considerable technical and operational risk for the U.S.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Electric seagliders could enable distributed, stealthy operations across the Indo-Pacific theater.

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In total, nearly 150 more Bayrkatar TB2 UAVs are expected to enter service in the coming decade.

Adm. Daryl Caudle, the nominee to be the U.S. Navy's next Chief of Naval Operations, has warned against not proceeding with the F/A-XX fighter program.

Turkish Aerospace is hoping to be on contract as soon as September for the first major sale of the company’s Hurjet advanced jet trainer to Spain.

L3Harris is “at an inflection point” following a strong second quarter and the release of the fiscal 2026 budget request, CEO Chris Kubasik said.

Spire Global is expanding its space systems offering to detect radio frequency signals, including efforts to disrupt global navigation satellite services such as GPS.

South Korea has identified MUM-T as a critical enabler for future attack helicopter operations, as KAI's Marine Attack Helicopter continues validation trials.

The Royal Thai Air Force has deployed six Lockheed Martin F-16A/B fighter jets in response to cross-border rocket and artillery attacks by Cambodian forces.

L3Harris has agreed to work with Italian electronic warfare specialist ELT Group on a multi-sensor test site in Italy.

The World Defense Show (WDS) has already secured 90% of its exhibitor space for its upcoming 2026 edition.

Turkish technology company Havelsan and UAE-based defence company Calidus have signed an agreement to develop advanced training systems tailored to the B-250 light attack aircraft.

Airbus has kicked off flight trials of the militarized version of the H160 helicopter in development for the French Armed Forces.

“We have no lessons to learn from arrogant industrialists,” says Defense Minister Theo Francken in response to Dassault's comments about Belgium and FCAS.

After attending to needs for ammunition and air defense, Europe seeks to plug its long-range strike gaps.

A joint U.S./UK program is testing safety technology on the Lockheed Martin F-35 that is aimed at avoiding collisions between military and civilian aircraft in the air.

A Turkish uncrewed aircraft system developer has secured orders from the country’s military for a rotary-wing logistics platform.

The Missile Defense Agency is conducting market research for new systems to launch current and future interceptors for the Golden Dome missile defense project.

Turkish missile manufacturer Roketsan has lifted the lid on an internally developed ramjet-powered, beyond-visual-range, air-to-air missile.

The shift by the U.S. Air Force to laser-guided weapons to down relatively cheap drones was enabled by a quick-turn software update to Litening targeting pods.

The Indian Army has taken delivery of its first three Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters following a 15-month delay in the original delivery schedule.