Aerospace

Honeywell’s aerospace separation is moving from strategy to industrial reality. The Form 10 filing sets out the scale, platform exposure, and production pressures that will define one of the US market’s largest standalone aerospace and defence suppliers.

Nuburu and Maddox plan mobile additive manufacturing for NATO forces. A new joint venture with Tekne targets containerised production units to fabricate drone parts and mission-critical components on demand, reducing reliance on centralised supply chains and supporting distributed sustainment for unmanned systems.

Airbus will expand Capa-X drone capability for European defence agency. Survey Copter has been selected for the EDA’s 48-month M2UAS project, worth about €1.1 million, to study a hybrid, configurable uncrewed aircraft for ISR, electronic warfare, and other missions.

PBS Aerospace won a multi-year Zone5 turbojet subcontract in Georgia. The deal, valued at several tens of millions of dollars, backs Roswell engine production for Zone 5’s missile and unmanned systems programmes.

Neros is investing £10m to build drones in Swindon locally. The company has incorporated Neros Technologies UK Ltd and plans onshore production of FPV uncrewed aerial systems for UK forces and European allies.

General Atomics is expanding Do228 NXT production through European partners. At Oelsnitz, GA PrecisionTech Europe makes about 450 machined parts for the airframe and landing gear, backed by metrology and material testing. Composite suppliers and in-house wing work in Oberpfaffenhofen are shaping the ramp to series build.

The UK has placed a £1bn AW149 order with Leonardo. Yeovil will build 23 New Medium Helicopters, supporting 3,300 jobs and a supply chain of nearly 70 UK companies. The deal also backs Proteus, Leonardo’s autonomous demonstrator, as government looks at optionally crewed rotorcraft.

NATO Innovation Fund co-led TYTAN’s €30m Series A financing round. The Munich company will scale AI-guided interceptor drones and an integration software layer across Germany, Ukraine, and other allied markets as demand grows for mass-producible, cost-controlled air-defence effects.

Pratt & Whitney will add a seventh isothermal forging press. The $200 million Columbus, Georgia, expansion targets a 30% lift in rotating compressor and turbine disk output to support GTF commercial engines and military programmes including the F135.

Archer Aviation will base its UK engineering hub in Bristol. The site will support defence and commercial programmes, with initial work centred on uncrewed vehicle development alongside Anduril UK and GKN.