Defense

Faced with a persistent pilot shortage, the U.S. Air Force in 2022 set a demanding goal of training 1,500 pilots per year to chip away at the issue.

As Beijing races to match U.S. capabilities in orbit, the Pentagon warns of rising threats across all orbital layers.

The Canadian government now is keeping options open for making a final decision on the fate of completing a plan to buy 88 Lockheed Martin F-35As.

Firefly Aerospace will pay $855 million to acquire defense technology company SciTec, the Texas-based startup said on Oct 5.

Ukraine remains committed to producing offensive ballistic missiles for sustained attacks on targets deep behind the Russian front lines, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Oct. 6.

The UK wants to demonstrate operations of a turbine-powered, fixed-wing, short takeoff and landing autonomous collaborative platform from a Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier.

North Korea has unveiled a new variant of its Hwasong-11 short-range tactical ballistic missile, this time equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle.

Sweden has formally placed its order for the Embraer C-390, becoming the sixth European nation to commit to the airlifter.

As flight testing progresses to larger sizes, Sikorsky has renamed its Rotor Blown Wing family of vertical-takeoff-and-landing uncrewed aircraft the Nomad.

Sikorsky expects the award for the 11th, and likely final, UH-60 Black Hawk order from the U.S. Army in late 2026 as the service reviews aviation plans.

The U.S. Space Force has assigned five future missions to SpaceX and two missions to United Launch Alliance (ULA).

The Royal Air Force (RAF) has withdrawn its General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper UAS from service, with missions taken over by the new MQ-9B Protector.

India’s air force chief has expressed optimism that domestic industry will be able to deliver a new-generation indigenous combat aircraft in the 2030s.

The U.S. Air Force is pressing to field a next-generation aerial refueling system by as soon as 2036, to justify production extension of the Boeing KC-46.

The UK defense ministry says it will invest in technology to detect lasers being aimed at spacecraft.

The Swiss government has asked its Armasuisse defense procurement agency to launch a process to field counter-uncrewed air systems following field trials this summer.

Thales and Hensoldt are ramping up output of key sensor equipment to keep pace with surging demand.

Australia has taken delivery of the first pair of Boeing AH-64E Apaches, marking the beginning of the end for its army’s Airbus Tiger attack helicopters.

Astroscale, a Japanese space junk removal company, has partnered with Australia's High Earth Orbit Robotics (HEO) to develop space-monitoring technologies.

The U.S. has taken delivery of the first shipment of critical minerals from Pakistan under a $500 million deal the two countries signed in September.

The UK Royal Air Force is experimenting with data science that can sift through the increasing amounts of electronic data being hoovered up by aircraft sensors.

The UK has declared its Sea Venom helicopter-launched anti-ship missile operational, closing a capability gap left open for eight years.

Boeing has handed over the first of eight planned P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to the German Navy.

The U.S. Army recently completed initial operational test and evaluation of its Lockheed Martin-made Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) Increment 1.

The Polish government says it is moving ahead with the purchase of RTX AIM-120D radar-guided air-to-air missiles to equip its F-35 combat aircraft.