Aerospace
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Airbus has completed the first demonstration flight of its Bird of Prey interceptor, with the uncrewed system autonomously detecting and engaging a one-way attack drone in a test that points toward a more manufacturable counter-UAS cost curve.
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Lockheed Martin has joined the Manufacturing Technology Centre as a Tier 1 member, pairing that move with a UK technology roadmap effort aimed at accelerating defence innovation into production and broadening the role of British suppliers in future capability delivery.
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Shield AI’s latest raise deepens defence autonomy’s industrial stack further. The financing and planned Aechelon acquisition strengthen the software, simulation, and validation layer behind autonomous military aviation.
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Defence AI integration increasingly depends on secure industrial deployment. Saab’s new Cohere partnership ties GlobalEye’s future as much to aerospace engineering as to software performance.
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Affordable mass munitions need propulsion suppliers that can scale quickly. PBS Aerospace’s latest Air Force award puts turbojet production capacity at the centre of the FAMM programme.
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Coventry becomes a scaling point for sovereign drone propulsion manufacturing. ePropelled’s new UK innovation centre is designed to push annual output past one million systems by 2027 as defence UAV demand lifts electric and hybrid propulsion into volume production.
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Ondas is assembling a broader defence manufacturing base at speed. Its latest acquisition run spans autonomous aircraft, missile protection, ISR systems, and heavy military engineering platforms.
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Belrise has bought a qualified path into British aerospace machining. Its Chester Hall acquisition adds approved capability in a supply chain where certification, traceability, and customer trust define value.
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AIAA says defence readiness is increasingly a factory-floor issue now. Its latest priority-setting warns that qualification delays, fragile supply chains, and workforce shortages are constraining aerospace output more than the engineering itself.
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GE Aerospace is widening Europe’s engine capacity with fresh investment. The company’s new spending plan targets production, testing, and skills across five countries as military and commercial demand continue to pull on the same industrial base.