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Skyeton Prevail Solutions (SPS), the Anglo-Ukrainian joint venture set up to fast-track the volume manufacture and supply of ‘ready now’ drones for the UK military, validated its multi-role Raybird Class 1 unmanned aerial system (UAS) with its deployment as part of the British Army’s recent ‘Iron Titan’ exercise, the company announced on 11 December 2025. “The system […]

The US Navy has awarded BAE Systems a new five-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) laser-guidance kits to equip US armed forces with tens of thousands of additional low-cost precision munitions, BAE Systems announced on 10 December 2025. The contract has a maximum value of USD 1.7 billion (EUR 1.45 […]

Saab announced on 10 December 2025 that it has created the world’s first software-defined aircraft fuselage. In a project led by The Rainforest – the company’s internal start-up focused on transformative innovation – Saab has worked with California-based digital manufacturing specialist Divergent Technologies to design and manufacture the 5 m fuselage of an unmanned aerial […]

The US Air Force’s Air Mobility Command (AMC) received its 99th and 100th KC-46A Pegasus tanker/transport aircraft on 2 December 2025 during an arrival ceremony at Travis Air Force Base (AFB) in California. Lieutenant General J P Healy, chief of the Air Force Reserve and the commander of Air Force Reserve Command, flew the 99th KC-46A […]

Leonardo has signed a multi-year contract with the Italian National Armaments Directorate to provide logistics support for the Italian Air Force’s fleet of C-27J Spartan tactical transport aircraft and for the full-motion simulator of the International Training Centre (ITC) at the air base in Pisa, headquarters of the 46th Air Brigade. The contract will run […]

Babcock International has been contracted to support the French Test Pilot School (École du Personnel Navigant d’Essais et de Réception – EPNER) with an Aero L-39 jet trainer, the company announced on 4 December 2025. The contract, for flight test training, will see the L-39 used for instruction and evaluation sessions, enabling trainees to assess […]

RTX’s Pratt & Whitney business has been awarded a USD 1.6 billion (EUR 1.37 billion) undefinitised contract action by the Pentagon for sustainment of F135 engines, which power all three variants of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, RTX announced on 2 December 2025. The contract funds key sustainment activities, including depot-level maintenance and […]

AeroVironment announced on 4 December 2025 the integration of its Visual Navigation System (VNS) kit with the company’s Puma Long Endurance (LE) small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS), allowing the Puma LE to operate in global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-denied environments. First introduced in 2022 for the Puma 2 AE and Puma 3 AE SUAASs, the […]

Lockheed Martin, MBDA and the F-35 Joint Program Office have recently completed a series of critical ground-based integration tests with the Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BRVAAM) and the F-35A, bringing the pair closer to operational readiness, Lockheed Martin announced on 3 December 2025. Conducted at Edwards Air Force Base in California, the ground vibration testing and […]

The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) has conducted the first firings in Brazil of an MBDA Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) from a Gripen E fighter, Saab announced on 2 December 2025. The firings, which took place in November 2025 during the BVR-X Technical Exercise at Natal Air Base in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do […]

Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) specialist Bayraktar achieved a significant first on 29 November in the Sinop Firing Area off Türkiye’s Black Sea coast when a Bayraktar Kizilelma unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) successfully destroyed a jet-powered aerial target using a beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM). The Kizilelma UCAV took off for its firing test, in […]

On 27 November 2025 Italy’s Leonardo unveiled the ‘Michelangelo Dome’: a new, advanced integrated defence system “designed to counter emerging threats in an increasingly complex global landscape”. Launched at the Officine Farneto complex in Rome, the project is being developed to protect critical infrastructure, sensitive urban areas, territories and assets of national and European interest […]

Boeing has received a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) from the US Army for AH-64E Apache attack helicopters worth almost USD 4.7 billion (EUR 4 billion) that will see the company build 96 of the helicopters for the Polish armed forces. The other FMS customers that will receive AH-64Es under the deal are Egypt and Kuwait, […]

Boeing has been awarded a Lot 12 contract by the US Air Force (USAF) for 15 additional KC-46A Pegasus aerial refuelling tankers, the company announced on 25 November 2025. The contract has been valued at USD 2.47 billion (EUR 2.13 billion). The order means that there are now 183 KC-46A multi-mission tankers on contract or […]

Rheinmetall has been commissioned by an unnamed NATO customer to supply a significant number of Hero loitering munitions (LMs), the company announced on 26 November 2025, with several hundred systems ordered this year. The value of the contracts is in the low three-digit-million-euro range gross, with deliveries to begin in the first quarter of 2026 […]

Embraer delivered the second of two C-390 Millennium multi-mission aircraft ordered by the Hungarian Air Force on 21 November 2025. The aircraft was handed over in a ceremony at Kecskemét Air Base in central Hungary attended by Hungarian Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky along with other officials and Embraer executives. The first Hungarian Millennium was delivered […]

An Indian Air Force (IAF) Tejas Mk1 crashed while performing an aerobatic display at the Dubai Airshow on 21 November 2025. The pilot did not eject. Following the crash, which happened around 14.10 local time at Al Maktoum International Airport, the IAF published a statement in its X social media ccount that read, “An IAF […]

Emirati defence technology house EDGE Group and Italy-based aviation component specialist Magnaghi Aerospace Group (MA Group) have agreed to explore co-operation that would enable EDGE to significantly expand and diversify its advanced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and other aerial solutions, EDGE announced on 20 November 2025. The agreement, signed at the 2025 Dubai Airshow by […]

General Kenneth Wilsbach was formally installed as 24th US Air Force Chief of Staff on 18 November 2025 during a ceremony at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland presided over by Department of the Air Force Secretary Troy Meink and attended by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Dan Caine and various elected officials and senior […]

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, working with industry partners and the US Air Force, has controlled an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) from the cockpit of a fifth-generation fighter while in flight, Lockheed Martin announced on 19 November 2025. The test flight, which took place out of Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, involved an unspecified UAV and an F-22 […]

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said that a Russian intelligence ship it has been monitoring near UK waters has directed lasers at the pilots of the Royal Air Force (RAF) P-8A maritime surveillance aircraft that have intercepted it. Speaking at a press conference in Downing Street on 19 November 2025, UK Defence Secretary […]