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Sep 24, 2021
Singapore’s UAS teaming test; Boeing to make Loyal Wingman down under; U.S. titanium imports down; and Raytheon expands AESA radar sales.
Sep 24, 2021
Experienced Pentagon veteran calls for return to a more conventional approach to innovation after era of open-ended demonstrations.
Sep 22, 2021
Both manufacturers have promised local final assembly lines and to export from the UK if selected.
Sep 22, 2021
Tempest is advancing toward a delivery plan and adding industrial partners as funding flows from the UK and Italy.
Sep 21, 2021
If Airbus decides to bid its KC-30 MRTT for the “bridge tanker” competition, it would likely team with Lockheed Martin.
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Nov 01, 2022
Sweden is proposing to follow Australia and Norway and decommission its NH90 fleet earlier than planned after struggling with availability issues.
Nov 01, 2022
Cameri, which is operated by Leonardo, was built primarily to support production of F-35s for Italy, but the Netherlands also selected the facility for the assembly of its F-35As.
Oct 31, 2022
A Boeing KC-46 took off from its home base in Kansas on Oct. 25 and flew west toward military airspace in Utah in a mission to test a new tactic for the refueler, one that has become controversial since the plan first came to light over the summer.
Oct 28, 2022
The U.S. Air Force next year will start defining what its future airlift capability will be, speeding up the work alongside an accelerated timeline for a next-generation tanker.
Oct 27, 2022
The Biden administration, in its long-awaited outline of nuclear policy, has detailed its thinking behind canceling the contentious Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear and retiring the B83-1 gravity bomb.
Oct 26, 2022
The Royal New Zealand Air Force has four Poseidon on order, the first of which is expected to arrive in country in December.
Oct 25, 2022
Ben Wallace has again held on to his role as UK defense secretary in the government being established by new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Oct 25, 2022
Ash Carter, an academic and physicist turned Pentagon leader who served as President Barack Obama’s last secretary of defense from 2015-2017, died Oct. 24 at the age of 68.