Germany

Airbus Helicopters says it is testing a new architecture for its H135 twin-engine light helicopter.

The German defense ministry has completed trials of a laser weapon demonstrator that could equip warships for anti-drone defense.

The milestone follows completion of an industrial program review by Lilium and Aciturri in late August.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Walther Pelzer, the director general of the German Space Agency, participated in a signing ceremony.

Stuttgart-based H2Fly completed four flights of its HY4 testbed aircraft from Maribor, Slovenia, in September.

Discover Airlines CEO Bernd Bauer said the German leisure carrier is on track to acquire six Airbus A320s and grow its fleet size to 28 aircraft in 2024.

A consortium of German companies has been contracted to begin building the IT platform that is expected to produce the AI systems for the European FCAS.

Lockheed Martin’s P-3 Orion maritime patroller looks set to have an extended operational life in Europe after Portugal purchased Germany’s fleet.

USC is a privately owned carrier focusing on operating Airbus A340s on either wet-leases or charters globally.

Germany’s Rheinmetall is to supply Ukraine with its LUNA Next Generation (NG) tactical uncrewed aircraft system.

The U.S. government has approved a potential sale of the U.S./Israel-developed Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system to Germany.

German satellite launcher developer Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has secured €30 million ($32.8 million) from global investment firm KKR.

Trade-offs involving battery weight and range are inevitable in electric aviation, but German startup Vaeridion thinks that it has a novel solution.

German defense company Rheinmetall has broken ground on an F-35 center fuselage assembly plant.

Germany's refusal to deliver Eurofighters to Saudi Arabia is a worry for Dassault chief Eric Trappier with France eying future FCAS exports.

The approved package includes the AIM-120C-8 variant and up to 12 spare guidance sections, plus captive air training missiles.

German family-owned company Mubea Group is acquiring Switzerland-based RUAG International’s Aerostructures Germany & Hungary unit.

The Boeing 737-based aircraft will be deployed to Germany for six months starting in October.

Airline capacity on German domestic routes will continue to be substantially lower than in pre-pandemic times, German air travel association BDL predicts.

Germany’s defense ministry has closed a contract with Diehl Defense to acquire IRIS-T SLM ground-based air defense systems.

Airbus and Czech uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) developer Primoco UAV have teamed up to cooperate on small UAS development.

German air rescue organization ADAC Luftrettung has purchased two VoloCity eVTOL aircraft for research operations starting in 2024.

The U.S. Air Force is buying at least 140 of the F-15EX variants, most of which are planned to go to the Air National Guard.

German and U.S. Air National Guard-led Air Defender 2023 brought together about 200 aircraft for two weeks, practicing destruction of surface-to-air missiles.

The air chiefs of the three Future Combat Air Systems nations–France, Germany, and Spain–have agreed to a joint vision for collaborative air combat.