Japan

A steady stream of social media from China's frequent rehearsals offers glimpses of a parade that will showcase mostly familiar weapon systems.

Japan’s Ministry of Defense has announced the Synchronized, Hybrid, Integrated and Enhanced Littoral Defense (SHIELD) system as part of an effort to counter potential invading forces.

The military alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States faces formidable challenges four years after its establishment.

Japan plans the first flight of the most powerful version of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H3 launcher as early as Oct. 21.

Japan's SkyDrive has signed a “strategic partnership” with PT Whitesky Aviation of Indonesia as it continues to focus on selling its eVTOLs into Asian markets.

Six U.S. allies in the Asia-Pacific region have increased their military spending by a combined 18.9% over the last three years.

Interstellar Technologies of Japan says it has signed five customers for its first Zero rocket launch, anticipated in 2027.

Japan's Skymark reported a significant loss for its June quarter, although the carrier is maintaining its projection of a full-year profit.

All Nippon Airways has adopted an AI-based turbulence prediction system developed by Japanese company BlueWX.

Beta Technologies' engine-first strategy is beginning to pay off.

Joby has formed a new joint venture (JV) partnership with Japan’s ANA Holdings.

Interstellar Technologies is teaming with Toyota to use automotive business assets for manufacturing rocket engines and propellant tanks.

Greater awareness of Scope 3 emissions trading and stronger government support are among the key takeaways from an eight-month pilot program.

A U.S. court on July 21 denied a motion to dismiss a stockholder suit challenging Archer’s $1.7 billion 2021 merger with Atlas Crest Investments.

Work is progressing on the UK’s big delta-wing fighter demonstrator, designed to derisk development of the trinational Global Combat Air Program.

BAE Systems appears to have adopted a modestly swept, cropped delta wing planform for a combat air demonstrator.

The U.S. Air Force has deployed two of its new Boeing F-15EX Eagle IIs to Kadena Air Base, Japan, as it prepares to stand up a unit of the fighters at the base.

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

Defense ministers from the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) partner nations have reaffirmed ambitions to get the combat aircraft on contract by year-end.

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force is looking to modernize against a wide, growing array of threats, from new ballistic missiles to next-generation fighters.

Four academics have been awarded a prize for proposing the creation of a Panel on Asteroid Orbit Alteration.

Japan’s Board of Audit raised concerns over the low operational reliability of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Kawasaki P-1 maritime patrol aircraft.

Japan used the final H-IIA rocket flight to deploy the Global Observing Satellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle spacecraft.

The ispace team investigating why its lunar lander crashed on June 6 says an anomaly in the systems laser range finder is the most likely culprit.

Tokyo-based real estate company Mitsui Fudosan has announced it will enter the advanced air mobility sector by developing and operating vertiports in Japan.