The U.S. military’s key intelligence partners will soon be able to use the U.S. Space Force’s new domain awareness platform ATLAS thanks to forthcoming upgrades.
The UK's aerospace sector may be booming, but it is also being throttled by geopolitical uncertainty, rising costs and supply-chain pressures, trade association ADS says.
The British government says it will lead a $50 billion European effort to develop deep strike weapons with a range of at least 300 km (186 mi.) to more than 2,000 km.
Industry, academia and government are combining to rebuild the UK’s long-dormant hypersonics capability for the next generation of deep-strike weapons.
Editors dig into the UK’s Defense Investment Plan, discussing how billions in new spending could reshape GCAP and airpower, electronic warfare and NATO strategy.
Development of the combat aircraft at the heart of the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) is set to accelerate after prime contractor Edgewing was awarded a £4.6 billion contract.
The tri-national Global Combat Air Program has emerged as the biggest winner from the UK government's Defense Investment Plan, although the funding comes at the cost of retiring helicopter and intelligence-gathering fleets as the military shifts some of those missions to uncrewed systems.
BAE Systems has reached the "business end" of developing its Future Combat Air Demonstrator, the aircraft that will pave the way for the fighter emerging from the tri-national Global Combat Air Program.
BAE Systems is committed to performing final assembly and development work on the T-7 Redhawk in the UK if the platform is selected as the RAF's Hawk replacement.
The UK’s most senior military officer says funding shortfalls in the UK’s upcoming Defense Investment Plan would cause operational activities and exercises to be “dialed back” unless additional resources are added.
The UK’s defense ministry is in disarray after the departure of two ministers concerned about the government’s unwillingness to provide more funding for defense.
A UK government decision to wrestle financial control of the Global Combat Air Program away from the defense ministry may place the trinational fighter program on firmer financial footing.
Skyfly plans to begin transition flight testing of its Axe personal eVTOL later this year while targeting first flights of a second aircraft by year’s end.
A Scottish airfield long associated with mysterious flight tests of black projects is competing for a role in the testing of a European hypersonic flight test capability.
The UK government has accused Russia of recklessness after two dangerous intercepts of Royal Air Force Boeing RC-135 Rivet Joint intelligence-gathering aircraft in international airspace.
