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Officially forming on March 12, Leonardo's space business becomes one of five business areas representing each of the warfighting domains: land, air, sea, cyber and space.

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

Leonardo Helicopters is hoping to finally bring the aircraft to market in 2025.

The first Bell 525 order was one of several placed by the offshore helicopter industry at this year’s Heli-Expo.

Leonardo has teamed with Bell to explore cooperation in a bid to bring tiltrotor helicopter technology into the European market.

Saudi Arabia's The Helicopter Company has signed multi-year framework orders with Airbus and Leonardo for a combined 250 helicopters at Heli-Expo.

Flight tracking, data recording and connectivity links will come as standard on Leonardo’s AW09 light helicopter when it enters the market in 2025.

Rotorcraft lessor LCI has placed a framework order with Leonardo to purchase AW169, AW139 and AW189 helicopters.

Leonardo, ATR’s parent company with Airbus, expects a faster production cycle and fewer technical inefficiencies.

Leonardo Helicopters is completing the final assembly of its Next-Generation Civil Tiltrotor Demonstrator ahead of an expected first flight in the coming weeks.

Leonardo says it has completed inflight demos of a morphing wingtip and winglet.

Politics, historical context and the workings of the U.S. defense industrial complex are among the reasons.

Amid discouraging outlook for turboprops, ATR is back in the black and working on new versions.

Saudi Arabia’s defense industry appears to be attempting to create conditions for the local assembly of rotorcraft.

Senior BAE Systems executives hope to finalize negotiations on work share, work allocation and work locations for the trinational Global Combat Air Program by the summer.

Fast rotorcraft race to flight; Wing’s bigger package-carrier; Airbus tests fuel-cell system; and ZeroAvia develops hydrogen refueler.

The UK’s DragonFire laser directed energy demonstration weapon has been tested against aerial targets for the first time.

Leonardo has packed more capability into its BriteCloud expendable active decoy, giving it the ability to swap data from the aircraft’s self-protection suite.

Engineers from BAE Systems and Leonardo have installed the prototype Radar 2 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar onto a Eurofighter Typhoon.

An agency of Italy, Japan and the UK will run the Global Combat Air Program, supported by a yet-to-be formed industrial joint venture.

Leonardo is reporting progress in nacelle technology, having performed successful tests in engine noise absorption.

Italy, Japan and the UK's Global Combat Air Program developing a sixth-generation crewed combat aircraft will be headquartered in London, the nations say.

Hydrogen is conspicuous by its absence from ATR's latest product development strategy that looks out over the next decade and beyond.

As the U.S. Army prepares for high-speed rotorcraft, the commercial helicopter industry continues its wait for advanced new technologies.

Leonardo Helicopters is sending its AW169 twin-engine helicopter on a tour of Emirati rotorcraft operators.