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Multi-million pound Tempest funding set to advance the UK’s future Combat Air capability

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded a contract worth approximately £250m to progress the design and development of Tempest, the UK’s Future Combat...
Panavia Tornado

German Government Reviews Options for Tornado Replacement

The German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht is reportedly revisiting the German Air Force’s requirement to replace its 90 Panavia Tornados with a new aircraft. In...
F/A-18 Service Life Modification program

Boeing Receives Second U.S. Navy Contract for F/A-18 Service Life Modification

Boeing has received a one-year contract, which also includes a one-year option for 2020, to continue modernizing the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 fleet under the...

Powering up the Future Combat Air System

By signing the third implementing agreement for the Next Generation Weapon System (NGWS) within a Future Combat Air System (FCAS) in August 2021, France,...
AT-6E N610AT

Royal Thai Air Force Selects Beechcraft AT-6 Wolverine For Light Attack Role

Pitched against the Embraer Super Tucano, the Korea Aerospace Industries’ KA-1 and the Turkish Aerospace Industries’ Hurkuc C, the Beechcraft AT-6 Wolverine has been...
Swiss-F-35A

F-35A wins the Swiss Air Force Competition

On 16 June US President Joe Biden had lobbied on behalf of American defence companies when meeting his Swiss counterpart while in Geneva for...

Electronic Warfare Podcast 16: Where Eagles Dare

Author and historian Mike Guardia joins us to discuss his latest book Skybreak looking at the career of the US Air Force’s F-15Cs during...

Abaco Wins Order to Help Equip Fleet of Fighter Aircraft

Abaco announced that it had won an order from a leading aerospace and defense company involved in the design, fabrication and assembly of aircraft, jet engines, helicopters and...

IAI Delivers First F-16 Wing & Vertical Fin to Lockheed Martin for new F-16...

The F-16 wing and vertical fin assembly lines, initially established at IAI in the 1980s, was reopened last year to meet increased demand for...
Gripen takeoff

GKN Aerospace receives order for RM12 engine upgrade for the JAS 39 Gripen

Contract covers engine software upgrade, in order to improve engine performance and lower lifecycle costs. Project will be delivered in partnership with FMV,...

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