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Will it remain a year of resilient demand for U.S. airlines? Much hinges on the duration of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

Over the next decade $121.3 billion is set to be spent on C4ISR and armed ISR aircraft, with $55.4 billion of the total already under contract, Aviation Week predicts.

Scandinavian Airlines’ (SAS) move to hike ticket prices as a result of higher oil prices is hardly a surprise.

Rheinmetall expects a flurry of orders from the Middle East and elsewhere for air defense gun systems after Iran fired drones against Gulf states.

The U.S. has upped its pace of striking Iranian navy ships and ports amid concerns about sea mining and other threats to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

Turkish Airlines' CFO Murat Sekar estimates the airline may see a $120 million loss if the conflict extends to a month.

Lufthansa Group is seeing an “enormous” increase in demand on its Asia routes since the Iran war started and plans increased services to Africa and Asia-Pacific

Gulf airlines are operating miniscule schedules, if any, after the U.S. and Israel started their war against Iran. Threats to security could slow recovery, too.

With the Israeli and U.S. air campaign against Iran entering its sixth day, a phase may be emerging: a hunt for Shahed drone launchers.

Since Israel and the U.S. launched their war against Iran, commercial aviation in the region has been thrown into deep turmoil with severe global repercussions.

An Iranian drone has damaged Nakhchivan International Airport in Azerbaijan in the latest blow to commercial aviation from the escalating Middle East conflict.

Airlines forced to suspend operations following airspace closures in the Middle East are now focusing on repatriation and repositioning flights.

Recovery from the major disruption to commercial aviation caused by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East could take weeks, industry players said.

U.S. forces struck an Iranian aircraft carrier for drones in the first hours of the war on Feb. 28, U.S. Central Command said on March 2.

A group of competing defense contractors in the U.S. are jousting with each other to replace the venerable Patriot air defense missile.

Trump Administration tariffs will remain both real and unreal for the aerospace and defense sector.

Raytheon will team with the U.S. photonics engineering group G&H to domestically produce thin film lithium niobate wafers following its win of an AFRL contract.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has confirmed that his government spent additional money to reserve slots on more Lockheed Martin F-35As.

Aviation Week’s recently released 2026 Military Fleet & MRO Forecast identifies open requirements for the delivery of 6,513 new-build military aircraft worth $250 billion over the next decade.

Armenia has selected Shield AI’s V-BAT vertical takeoff and landing uncrewed aircraft system for its military.

Canadians' reluctance to travel to the U.S. is steadfast a year after the Trump administration began stoking geopolitical tensions between the two neighbors.

The U.S. Commerce Department will invest $1.6 billion in Oklahoma-based USA Rare Earth and take a 10% stake in the firm.

Congressional appropriators seek to add $8 billion to the Pentagon’s budget for fiscal 2026 over its request, calling for $838.7 billion.

The hedge fund Elliott Investment Management has made a “significant” investment in hypersonic flight company Stratolaunch.

A Wyoming-based aircraft trust firm has acquired Southern Aircraft Consultancy.