Defense

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

A radio frequency directed energy weapon demo has proved it can counter drone swarms, UK trials show.

Lockheed Martin’s move to name a fifth chief financial officer in seven years comes at a bad moment, Wall Street analysts say.

The explosion that destroyed a Northrop Grumman solid rocket motor facility in Utah will not impact the company’s operations related to the Sentinel ICBM.

The U.S. Navy’s Test Pilot School is looking for a new small fleet of helicopters for training high-risk maneuvers and autorotation.

Thales’ Talios targeting pod is a “very good candidate” to receive a new sensor window.

It seems that a value can now be placed on the importance and capability of the growing fleet of C-390 Millenniums to European air arms.

Taiwan’s state-backed drone industry alliance is expeditiously decoupling from China-based supply chains, Chairman Hu Kai-Hung tells Aviation Week.

Companies say they are ready to support the White House’s Golden Dome initiative. They just need the green light.

The new Trump tariffs and trade wars could indelibly alter the global aerospace and defense industry.

The C-130’s new role opens the door for a novel class of mass-produced, low-cost cruise missiles to enter U.S. and foreign weapon inventories.

U.S. Army officials are beginning to grasp the challenges of President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome initiative.

During a press conference with Netanyahu last week, Trump announced that the U.S. would soon reveal its first $1 trillion defense budget.

Italy’s ELT Group has unveiled a new modular electromagnetically silent anti-drone system.

The UK defense ministry has launched a search to find a replacement for the British army’s Thales Watchkeeper uncrewed aircraft system.

China has deployed an airborne early warning aircraft to Egypt for exercises.

The air forces of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and South Korea will cooperate on the Korea Aerospace Industries KF-21 fighter program.

A notice to industry calls for new technologies to integrate on USAF's upcoming Boeing E-7A Wedgetail fleet, while allowing for the possibility that the service could field another platform to serve the role.

Taiwanese drone manufacturer Thunder Tiger braced itself for a painful impact when Trump imposed a 32% tariff on most imports from the island.

The U.S. State Department has approved a possible sale of an unspecified number of Leonardo TH-73A helicopters to the Philippines.

Built to carry 72 aircraft with the most powerful engines ever put into a vessel, the USS Saratoga (CV-3)—the U.S. Navy’s first “fast” aircraft carrier—was launched at the New York Shipbuilding Corp. shipyard in Camden, New Jersey, on April 7, 1925, and featured on the cover of our April 20 edition.

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India’s defense development agency demonstrated an indigenous, land-based, high-energy laser in a live shoot-down event of a fixed-wing drone on April 13.

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has unveiled the second version of the XQ-58A Valkyrie.

The U.S. Army is overhauling most of its major aircraft fleets, including rotary-wing, C4ISR and uncrewed platforms.