Aerospace

  • Ball bearings put steel policy into defence focus

    Ball bearings put steel policy into defence focus

    Ball bearings have now entered Britain’s defence supply-chain debate sharply. Their production links steel policy to missiles, aircraft, naval gearboxes, armoured vehicles, radar systems, and turret stabilisation.

  • India looks to put stealth drones at sea

    India looks to put stealth drones at sea

    India is pushing naval autonomy into carrier aviation planning work. A carrier-capable UCAV would stretch stealth manufacturing, deck integration, datalinks, propulsion, and sustainment at sea.

  • Ghost Bat moves collaborative combat air into the Pacific

    Ghost Bat moves collaborative combat air into the Pacific

    Ghost Bat enters Pacific exercise testing with allied combat aircraft. Boeing’s MQ-28 now faces a harder test of autonomy, payload integration, sustainment, and production discipline.

  • Polish Navy selects V-BAT for maritime surveillance missions

    Polish Navy selects V-BAT for maritime surveillance missions

    Poland has selected V-BAT systems for Polish naval surveillance missions. The ship-compatible VTOL UAS gives the Polish Navy a compact ISR option for Baltic operations, where deck footprint, endurance, electronic warfare resilience, supportability, and rapid maintenance shape operational value.

  • Ghost Bat moves collaborative combat air into the Pacific

    Poland moves closer to A330 MRTT tanker procurement

    Poland is advancing plans to buy Airbus tanker aircraft soon. A potential A330 MRTT acquisition would add strategic refuelling and transport capacity on NATO’s eastern flank, while creating long-term demand across conversion, mission equipment, sustainment, training, spares, and depot support.

  • Skyhammer effectiveness figure raises UK counter-drone production test

    Skyhammer effectiveness figure raises UK counter-drone production test

    Skyhammer has gained a clearer counter-drone performance reference point today. The UK turbojet interceptor’s reported effectiveness figure now shifts attention toward production repeatability, seeker performance, training, launch support, and quality control as demand rises for lower-cost kinetic air-defence systems.

  • Ghost Bat moves collaborative combat air into the Pacific

    Boeing P-8A upgrade links US and Australian maritime patrol fleets

    Boeing will modernise Poseidon aircraft for American and Australian fleets. The $121.2m order reinforces the industrial weight of maritime patrol sustainment, where sensor refresh, mission-system updates, retrofit capacity, and allied interoperability now shape anti-submarine warfare readiness.

  • Ghost Bat moves collaborative combat air into the Pacific

    Airbus moves Tiger upgrade toward first flight

    Airbus has moved Tiger Mark III into ground testing phase. The upgrade adds sensors, avionics, weapons integration, and future drone links to Europe’s attack-helicopter fleet.

  • Leonardo and Baykar take drone teaming airborne

    Leonardo and Baykar take drone teaming airborne

    Leonardo and Baykar have flown crewed-uncrewed teaming trials successfully together. The K-SWARM work links M-346 aircraft with KIZILELMA, moving collaborative combat-air development into live flight.

  • Boeing JDAM LR stretches affordable precision strike

    Boeing JDAM LR stretches affordable precision strike

    Boeing is extending JDAM into a longer-range precision strike role. JDAM LR combines modular air-breathing propulsion, open-system interfaces, and existing aircraft integration logic, aiming to close the gap between guided bombs and high-cost standoff missiles.