The UK Royal Air Force is embedding as many U.S. Air Force personnel as it can to accelerate the American adoption of the Boeing E-7A Wedgetail as the RAF is in the beginning stages of its own program.
The UK’s plan to achieve full operational capability with the Boeing P-8 Poseidon rests on its ability to train crews in-country, with the Royal Air Force currently fielding three more aircraft than total aircrews.
South Korea’s defense procurement agency DAPA has approved a KRW3.94 trillion ($2.97 billion) budget to procure 20 Lockheed Martin F-35A fighters under the F-X Phase 2 project.
AEI HorizonX, the investment group comprising Boeing and a private equity firm, has invested in Arlington, Virginia-based Shift5, an operational technology cybersecurity and fleet analytics company, representatives told Aviation Week.
Canada has ordered two 7-year-old Airbus A330-200 aircraft worth $102 million from a lessor to convert into a new tanker-transport fleet, making them the first two aircraft purchased to replace five A310-derived CC-150 Polaris jets.
A fleet of 22 former Swiss Air Force Northrop F-5E/F fighters acquired by the U.S. Navy will enter a modification phase to serve as adversary aircraft to train naval and Marine Corps pilots, Naval Air Systems Command said on July 14.
With new leadership and an eager private equity sponsor, Tucson, Arizona-based Geost, a provider of small-satellite electro-optical and infrared sensors to the U.S. military, is eyeing acquisitions and investment stakes in other companies.
Aviation Week Network hosted PwC leaders to discuss the changes occurring in the Defense Merger and Acquisition Landscape. Read their take on how the radically altered geopolitical environment has put unprecedented pressure on this market.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Warfighting Analysis Center—its high-level focus group of experts and operators designing future military satellite architectures—is sharing its findings and collecting information from allies in addition to U.S. industry to ensure its plans are not duplicative of partner efforts.
Lockheed Martin has completed the major assembly step on the first F-16V Block 70/72 fighter to be built in Greenville, South Carolina, moving the single-engine fighter closer to a first delivery in late 2023, the company says in an update posted on social media.
After a monthlong delay, SpaceX’s 25th NASA-contracted resupply mission is prepared for launch to the International Space Station late July 14 from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The upgraded Vega-C, a beefed-up and more flexible version of the Vega light launcher, made its first flight July 13 from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
The upper stage of the Lockheed Martin missile was not tested during the first flight, and only the Northrop Grumman-supplied, first-stage motor was ignited.
The CEO of Roscosmos State Space Corp. has vowed to ban cosmonauts from working with the European Robotic Arm installed on Russia’s new Nauka science module on the International Space Station.
