The UK could help India develop a larger variant of its Tejas combat aircraft as part of a new strategic partnership between the two countries.

China’s Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAIG) has signed a project agreement with Zigong Municipal People’s Government to build a dedicated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industrial park in the city that will eventually see an annual output of 100 medium to large drones.

Turkish Aerospace is to begin assembly of the first prototype Hurjet jet trainer in June as the company targets a first flight by the end of 2022.

A Kratos UTAP-22 Mako UAS flew a 2-hr., 10-min. flight test on April 29 from Tyndall AFB, Florida, to launch Autonomous Attritable Aircraft Experimentation program this year with the Skyborg ACS, which was integrated by Leidos.

Flight testing of the Beta Technologies’ Alia for the U.S. Air Force has begun after the electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft received airworthiness approval under the service’s Agility Prime program.

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA), an armed rebel group in Myanmar, said it shot down a Myanmar military helicopter that was part of an air strike…

UK F-35s will see action again in the skies over Iraq and Syria, this time operating from the carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth. 

Egypt is planning to more than double the size of its Dassault Rafale fleet after inking agreements with France for 30 more aircraft.