Korean Air is preparing a design for a full-scale technology demonstrator for a reconnaissance and attack drone that officials close to the program think could be ready for service around 2030.

The ruling clears the U.S. Air Force to solicit a bid from Textron for one to three AT-6s to be delivered to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, to support the Light Attack Experiment Phase III.

Boeing plans to deliver 84 copies of the Leonardo AW139 derivative under a $2.38 billion contract awarded in September 2018.

“We see numerous companies that are pushing really cool technology that has a chance to really change the world,” Air Force acquisition executive Will Roper says.

The Neuron demonstrator flew a series of collaborative missions with five Dassault Rafale fighters and an E-3 airborne early warning platform.

U.S.-operated F-35s, which already are equipped with a system that prevents controlled flight into terrain, also will be protected against air-to-air collisions.

Azerbaijan looks set to become a customer of Leonardo’s M-346 advanced jet trainer following the signing of agreements between Azeri and Italian ministers.

Making Airbus the Spanish lead for the development of the European Future Combat Air System would have relegated Spanish industry to “tasks of lower added value,” Indra’s chairman and CEO says.