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The U.S. Navy will see its total aircraft procurement dip in fiscal 2025 compared to the previous year’s request.

The Pentagon on March 11 rolled out its $849.8 billion budget request for 2025.

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The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps will reduce its buy of Lockheed Martin F-35s in the soon-to-be-released fiscal 2025 budget request.

The USAF may have to convert some F-35s with outdated avionics to combat roles due to the ongoing, “deeply concerning” delays with software certification.

The U.S. Air Force is putting its Lockheed Martin F-35A through its paces in the type’s most complex deployment to the Asia Pacific.

The country’s ministers, engineers and industry leaders have waited almost 14 years for the 13-min. first flight of the prototype Kaan on Feb. 21.

Every dollar of aircraft production underpins at least another dollar of supplier activity in all tiers.

Singapore will buy eight Lockheed Martin F-35A, making the RSAF one of only a handful of air arms to operate a mixed fleet of F-35A and F-35B.

The use of uncrewed systems by Ukraine is inspiring nations including the UK to make major investments in drone capabilities.

Ukraine will begin receiving F-16 combat aircraft this summer, the Danish government has announced.

The U.S. Air Force is finally nearly ready to start flight testing a communications pod for the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus.

Major programs have buoyed BAE Systems to a record order backlog of more than £69 billion ($87.1 billion), the company has reported.

As the budget was announced, the head of the Republic of Singapore Air Force shared his priorities ahead of Singapore Airshow 2024.

A lighter-weight replacement is coming for the Massive Ordnance Penetrator as the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider moves moves through flight testing.

Lockheed Martin expects growing international demand to keep its F-35 production line running at pace amid a potential reduction in U.S. buys of the aircraft.

Judges at the Court of Appeal in The Hague sided with anti-war campaign groups in a Feb. 12 ruling.

The Netherlands has become the second European country to opt to perform its own depot-level maintenance, repair and overhaul on the Lockheed Martin F-35.

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

Aviation Week projects that regional defense investment will to climb to $270 billion by 2032 from $197 billion in 2023.

F-35 engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney still sees no risk to completing the critical design review on time by the middle of 2025.

The service, blocked from starting new acquisition programs, used a long-standing autonomy demonstration effort to begin CCA work.

Ankara finally secures approval for new F-16s, but Athens will receive the long-desired F-35 first.

The company has launched a bid to replace the Honeywell Integrated Power Package with a new system offering greater cooling capacity.