Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
GE Aerospace on Sept. 22 announced it conducted supersonic captive carry flight tests of a new solid-fueled ramjet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Advanced Hawkeyes are picking up battle management slack from the dwindling number of E-3s, now that the U.S. Air Force’s E-7A Wedgetail plans are in flux.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Brian Everstine
Italian F-35s and Swedish JAS-39 Gripens were scrambled on Sept. 19 to respond to Russian MiG-31s that entered Estonian airspace.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The hybrid-electric, short-takeoff-and-landing transport could fill a gap in the military’s air mobility fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Craig Caffrey
U.S. government figures show 2024 was a record year for Foreign Military Sales. The question is how long the European market renaissance which has driven the rise will continue for.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Chen Chuanren
Northrop Grumman and Taiwan’s NCSIST have agreed to explore collaboration on air and missile defense modernization for the country's National Defense Ministry.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
Ukraine’s armed forces face a new drone menace on the front lines that threatens after 3.5 years of full-scale war to transform a bloody stalemate with Russia into something worse for the defenders.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
Space Norway and Airbus’ SSTL have signed an agreement to jointly pursue business for a new synthetic aperture radar satellite the companies are co-developing.
Satellites

By Chen Chuanren
The Taiwan Space Agency is moving ahead with its first domestically developed communications satellite program.
Satellites

By Jonas Murby
Europe has momentum as an exporter to India, but the advancement of India’s own industry will be the ultimate determinant.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. government is seeking to retake control of the Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump has said.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
Capella Space parent IonQ has signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy to work on developing and deploying quantum technologies in space.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Nuclear-armed Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have signed a mutual defense pact that declares that any aggression against one of the countries will be considered aggression against both.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has unveiled the Strong Bow ballistic missile defense system at the Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition 2025.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall, Tony Osborne
Startups and established primes are revisiting weapon development to accelerate delivery of equipment to users.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Matthew Fulco
The U.S. and Ukraine will jointly invest $150 million in a fund that will help rebuild the country and develop its vast critical minerals resources,
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
Iron Beam prime contractor Rafael, along with the Israeli Air Force and the Directorate of Defense Research & Development, have completed weeks of testing in southern Israel.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Denmark is to acquire long-range precision weapons in a bid to strengthen the country’s security in the face of the new regional threat, Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall
SpaceX is in talks with countries to give them sovereign satellite communications capabilities, says Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s president.
Satellites

By Tony Osborne
New industry partnerships are moving the Global Combat Aircraft Program closer to its multibillion-dollar design and development contract.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
A new House proposal to avert a government shutdown includes a provision to force the Pentagon to keep the Boeing E-7A Wedgetail program moving at pace.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The Trump administration on Sept. 15 announced it would significantly loosen restrictions on international sales of uncrewed aerial systems.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
Germany is drafting a new military space architecture that will help shape the country's development plans, says the head of the German Space Command.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Robert Wall
The defense market will become the biggest growth driver for the space-based remote sensing industry, Novaspace analysts estimate.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Startup Certo Aerospace, developing an uncrewed co-axial rotorcraft, has won a UK Defense Ministry contract to demonstrate logistics and medevac capabilities.
Aircraft & Propulsion