Iran

By David Casey
Airlines face months-long disruption to Saudi Arabian flights amid continuing Saudi-Houthi missile and drone attacks.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
Twenty-seven UK and U.S. allies back the conclusion that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard was behind a foiled plot targeting U.S. forces at RAF Fairford.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Kuwait contracts Marss Systems for £370M national counter-drone system using AI-enabled command and control to counter air and sea threats.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
UK authorities believe Iran was behind a suspected foiled plot to attack a base housing U.S. Air Force bombers in England last weekend.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Ella Nethersole
Iraqi Airways secured U.S. sanctions exemption for pilgrimage, medical treatment and education travel.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
New U.S. sanctions block Iranian airlines from international flights, targeting foreign airports and service providers with severe financial penalties.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force's top officer says some units will have longer deployments as the service looks to reset into a new model once the Iran conflict ends.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The current structure for U.S. Air Force base defense is simply not enough to protect bases and aircraft. So the service announced it is taking multiple steps to address it.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Alan Dron
The U.S. sanctions 27 Iranian airlines, targeting covert networks and intermediaries that help Iran source aircraft and spares for its aging fleet.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Garrett Reim
Taiwanese officials are watching the U.S.-Israel-Iran War closely.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Alan Dron
Iran says 100 of its commercial aircraft were damaged or destroyed in the first 40 days of the conflict with the U.S. and Israel.
Airlines & Lessors

By Brian Everstine
High operations tempo, increasing threats drives a shifting strategy for air defenses and the systems the Army needs.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Alan Dron
If the ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. holds, major opportunities exist for the world’s airliner manufacturers—but which ones?
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
General Atomics-Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) says it is modifying the ground control station for the MQ-9A Reaper to also operate the larger MQ-9B model, with testing starting by year’s end.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
Russian aircraft manufacturer Yakovlev has begun flight trials of the Yak-130M, a modernized version of its combat jet trainer.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Alan Dron
The agreement intended to bring an end to conflict in the Gulf and reopen the Strait of Hormuz will potentially give Iran the opportunity to rebuild its civil aviation fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
A few days after Tehran and Washington reached a preliminary peace deal, the Iranian Red Crescent Society turned to Russia to renew its rotorcraft fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Lawmakers appear set to replace special operations aircraft lost in the daring rescue of a U.S. Air Force pilot in Iran.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall, Steve Trimble
The war in Iran that has drawn in the wider Gulf region has also become somewhat of a testing ground for Edge Group.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. military was poised to respond to Iranian forces on June 9 following the downing of a U.S. Army attack helicopter and rescue mission.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
Rafael is proposing to equip UAVs with some of the self-protection equipment more typically associated with combat aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
American combat aircraft and other forces are maintaining a high pace of operations to detect and down Iranian threats in the Persian Gulf.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran slowed aerospace orders at General Dynamics, but the division still managed to record a book-to-bill ratio of 1.13.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
A U.S. Army official said a deployed artillery unit exhausted the full inventory of Lockheed Martin PRSM missiles early in the war against Iran last month.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall
Zelenskyy says some of his country’s counter-drone specialists deployed to the Middle East aided in shooting down Iranian Shahed-type drones in the region.
Budget, Policy & Operations