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

The UK Royal Air Force is to send trainee pilots to Italy as it attempts to resolve throughput issues with its own training pipeline.

The Royal Air Force’s Project Monet could open the door to Swift’s success as a military training aircraft.

UK lawmakers question the Defense Ministry's ability to rapidly deliver lethal aid to the armed forces.

A British startup has fired weapons from a Turkish-developed winged multicopter uncrewed aircraft system.

The latest flight is part of the UK Royal Air Force's ongoing efforts to explore the use of sustainable and synthetic fuels.

The UK Royal Air Force is trying out multicopter drones to support its aircraft engineering tasks.

The £656 million ($822 million) contract was awarded to BAE Systems on April 14.

The UK Royal Air Force will use two light aircraft as flying testbeds for new technologies, including synthetic fuels.

Belgium has become the first international participant in the General Atomics MQ-9B SkyGuardian operators club established by the UK RAF.

Air Marshal Sir Richard Knighton will be appointed Chief of the Air Staff in June, the UK defense ministry announced March 31.

Boeing has begun building new infrastructure to support the operation of the UK RAF's new fleet of E-7 airborne early warning aircraft in Scotland.

The review is one of the milestones in the £110 million ($133.7 million) Shadow Mk.2/R2 upgrade program.

The joint RAF squadron was formed as part of the UK’s Qatar Air Program connected to its sale of Eurofighter Typhoons to the Qatar Emiri Air Force.

The UK and German air forces have linked arms to undertake a joint air policing mission from Estonia.

NATO has received information on Boeing’s E-7, Northrop Grumman’s E-2 Hawkeye and Saab’s GlobalEye as it considers an interim AEW platform.

The UK RAF plans to transfer most C-130J missions to the Airbus A400M by the time the Hercules leaves service in the summer.

The U.S. Air Force is kicking off spending on Boeing’s E-7A Wedgetail, awarding Boeing a contract of up to $1.2 billion for the rapid prototyping program.

Historic electronic systems facility in Rochester needs funding for modernization.

The service has had to compress development of C-130J missions onto the A400M.

Throughput of the UK Royal Air Force’s pilot training pipeline is improving, the head of the service has insisted.

A two-year project will explore hose-and-drogue positioning and drogue stability control.

The RCO’s Project Monet aims to fund a technology demonstrator to prove potential green technologies.