United Kingdom (UK)

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems appears to have adopted a modestly swept, cropped delta wing planform for a combat air demonstrator.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
The U.S. Space Force last week released its first International Partnership Strategy.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall
The UK government has named Air Marshal Harv Smyth to be the next chief of staff for the Royal Air Force.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Ben Goldstein
UK startup Elevate Racing has emerged from stealth with its first product—the AirKart, a single-seat eVTOL inspired by Formula One.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
UK startup Sora Aviation has designed a large tiltrotor eVTOL able to carry up to 30 passengers at a time.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Robert Wall
An audit of the UK’s F-35 program shows it continues to suffer from delays in deliveries, capability enhancements and reliability shortfalls.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Missile programs and procurement are at the heart of a renewed defense cooperation agreement between France and the UK.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Air forces and senior commanders from around 60 countries are set to converge on London next week and the spotlight will be on a recent UK defense review.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
The British government is following France in taking a stake in OneWeb-owner Eutelsat, boosting the value of the French satellite service operator.
Satellites

By Tony Osborne
The Lancaster House defense and security treaties between France and the UK will “scale up,” reflecting the international threat picture, Macron says.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Defense ministers from the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) partner nations have reaffirmed ambitions to get the combat aircraft on contract by year-end.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
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.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) says the winner of its satellite deorbit demo will pick the spacecraft they will attempt to remove from orbit.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Robert Wall
The UK Space Agency plans to perform a space debris removal demo and has kicked off the search for a domestic vendor for the mission.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Mark Carreau
Four academics have been awarded a prize for proposing the creation of a Panel on Asteroid Orbit Alteration.
Operations & Safety

By Tony Osborne, Robert Wall, Steve Trimble
The UK committed to F-35A nuclear-capable aircraft and joined others in Europe in signaling a greater burden-sharing role in NATO.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The UK's plans to buy a fleet of F-35As to carry out NATO’s dual capable aircraft nuclear mission have made headlines in the country.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Angus Batey
The emergent advanced air mobility industry is not short of startups working on ambitious technology programs.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
The UK government confirmed plans to acquire at least 12 Lockheed Martin F-35As to bolster its offensive nuclear capability.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
The UK Royal Navy is continuing efforts to recover a Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II that diverted to Thiruvananthapuram Airport in India.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Victoria Moores
The UK and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement which means UK-originating transit passengers will not have to go through a second security check in Saudi Arabia.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
The UK aerospace industry has reacted favorably to reforms proposed by the government’s new industrial strategy.
Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
Protesters broke into the UK Royal Air Force’s main air transport base and sprayed red paint on two of the service’s Airbus A330 Voyager tankers.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The industrial joint venture company that will build the tri-national combat aircraft at the heart of the Global Combat Air Program has been christened Edgewing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
A small but ambitious research program has reimagined regional aviation in the UK.
Advanced Air Mobility