Defense

INDIAN AIR FORCE took delivery of final five AH-64E Apaches as part of order for 22; it earlier received 15 CH-47F(I) Chinook heavy-lift helicopters.

TEAM NIGHTJAR was formed by Airbus Helicopters and >20 Australian partners to propose H145M for multi-role helicopter requirement for Australian

Spain is in negotiations with Airbus to acquire at least 20 new-build Eurofighter Typhoons to replace early model F/A-18 Hornets based in the Canary Islands.

The KZ-11 solid-propellant space launcher of Chinese state company Expace failed on its first flight on July 10.

Documented Combat Losses In Libya.

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Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston says in an interview how the RAF is adapting to COVID-19 and looking ahead to transformative initiatives such as ASTRA.

Initiatives such as the European Defense Fund and PESCO could give the European defense industry a leg-up in the post-coronavirus era.

Manned-unmanned teaming and combat cloud technologies are key disruptors in Europe’s Future Combat Air System.

Airbus Defense & Space CEO Dirk Hoke talks with Aviation Week about COVID impact, Europe’s big defense initiatives and other challenges.

Italian and Swedish industry will begin joining discussions on Tempest later this year.

A country-by-country look at who will benefit from the alphabet soup of European defense and aerospace programs in progress to bolster industry.

Objectives include surveying the topography and geology of Mars, its physical fields, atmosphere, ionosphere and climate.

The UK is preparing to advance to the next stage of its Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft technology demonstrator project.

Committee backs increased F-35 buy; fixing drag on F-18 readiness; Austria to retire trainers; and Brazilian Gripen production starts.

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

The U.S. approval, as expected, clears the path for the Japan Ministry of Defense to become the largest customer for the F-35 outside the U.S. and expand the customer base for the short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing F-35B.

More than a month after the U.S. Army secretary green lighted the use of air assets during a June 1 protest of the death of George Floyd in Washington, lawmakers will finally have access to the Pentagon’s investigation report.

The improved version of the Klimov RD-93, which is likely a candidate to power the JF-17 Block 3, has been shipped to a Moscow-based test center.

With the interplanetary highway to Mars poised to open next week, spacecraft owned by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and NASA have been loaded onto their respective launch vehicles at Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center and Cape Canaveral.

A United Nations report into the use of armed drones has suggested that the U.S.-sanctioned killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Iraq in January violated international laws.

Deployments by Italian Air Force F-35s to Iceland have provided a template for how the country will use the fifth-generation fighter in the future.

IAI's loitering munitions don't just hover in the sky, like alert hunters they ensure that ground forces are monitoring the right area, waiting to detect and pounce on targets as soon as they appear.

Britain is planning to restart arms sales to Saudi Arabia, a year after judges found that government ministers had been unlawfully signing off on export licenses.