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A Slovakian-led research project to develop a hydrogen-powered vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft has been approved to receive almost €60 million ($69 million) in European Union funding.

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

Missile programs and procurement are at the heart of a renewed defense cooperation agreement between France and the UK.

Spain will again rely on Airbus to provide its radar satellites with a replacement.

The four-nation Eurofighter combat aircraft is “still very much in the game” for potential export sales to Saudi Arabia and Turkey, says a UK government minister.

A move to include a cabin bag as standard in ticket prices would also hit airline ancillary revenues.

Questions still hang over the implementation of NATO members' increased defense spending goal.

Speaking to the Defense Commission of the Spanish Senate, Defense Minister Margarita Robles said that Spain is budgeting €1.375 billion for the TAI Hurjet buy.

NHIndustries aims to extend the NH90’s frontline role with a Block 2 upgrade, which could help position it for NATO’s rotorcraft needs in the 2040s.

Diehl and Sener have struck an agreement to work together on projects such as remote carriers and hypersonic weapons technologies.

The Spanish-German team developing a radar upgrade for some Eurofighter Typhoons is gearing up to begin mass production of the system as it looks to wrap up flight trials.

Can the French-German-Spanish fighter development program be saved? The next few months could be decisive.

The leader of Colombia strongly rejected a nearly month-old report that he has received a recent offer from China to buy J-10CE fighters.

EHang has announced the sale of 41 autonomous EH216-S multicopter eVTOLs to a special economic zone in Changchun, Jilin Province, China.

Airbus says talks are underway on how to evolve the Eurodrone program in terms of missions and participants, in part to reflect lessons from current conflicts.

European militaries should expedite their pursuit of collaborative combat aircraft, Airbus Defense & Space CEO Michael Schoelhorn argues.

While Trump rattles alliances, Europe is betting big on U.S. jets while keeping its own in play.

Startup Dovetail Electric Aviation plans to use immersion cooling to improve the safety and performance of battery packs.

Airbus Helicopters has branded its modular crewed-uncrewed teaming (CUC-T) capabilities for rotorcraft, marketing it as HTeaming.

Arkadia Space of Spain says its in-space demonstration of its hydrogen peroxide green monopropellant has been successful.

Spain has canceled a €285 million ($325.8 million) purchase of anti-tank missiles from Israel.

It is hard to hear aircraft take off amid the noise of metal being machined in the workshops of the Turkish Air Force’s 2nd Air Maintenance Factory Directorate.

The European Union is backing a German-led push to investigate uncrewed air-to-air refueling capability and medevac operators.

Italy and Spain are testing the limits of what qualifies as military expenditure in their efforts to meet NATO’s 2% of GDP defense spending target.

Turkish Aerospace General Manager Mehmet Demiroglu says the company’s Hurjet could become the training platform for NATO nations.