Aerospace

  • Italy selects Airbus tanker for refuelling fleet

    Italy selects Airbus tanker for refuelling fleet

    Italy has selected Airbus tankers for its refuelling renewal programme. The six-aircraft deal strengthens European strategic air mobility and adds demand for tanker conversion, refuelling systems, mission equipment, and long-term support capacity.

  • UK funding push keeps GCAP on industrial track

    UK funding push keeps GCAP on industrial track

    The UK is preparing a major funding package for GCAP. The decision would support the next phase of sixth-generation fighter development, keeping design, propulsion, mission systems, and advanced manufacturing work aligned with the 2035 service-entry target.

  • Indonesia’s Kizilelma plan turns UAV procurement into industrial strategy

    Indonesia’s Kizilelma plan turns UAV procurement into industrial strategy

    Indonesia’s Kizilelma procurement is developing into a wider aerospace industrial strategy, combining Turkish unmanned combat aircraft, local production, MRO capacity, and future manned-unmanned teaming with fifth-generation fighter ambitions.

  • Skyraider II test puts deployable aircraft logistics under scrutiny

    Skyraider II test puts deployable aircraft logistics under scrutiny

    AFSOC will test rapid disassembly and reassembly of the OA-1K Skyraider II in an operational environment, putting deployability, modularity, austere support, and low-footprint aircraft sustainment at the centre of the programme.

  • Aerospace lifts UK manufacturing output

    Aerospace lifts UK manufacturing output

    Aerospace growth has lifted UK manufacturing output despite inflation pressure. The sector led annual gains, while energy costs and labour constraints continued to squeeze real productivity.

  • Astrolight commissions Greek optical ground station

    Astrolight commissions Greek optical ground station

    Astrolight has commissioned Greece’s Holomondas optical ground station for CubeSats. The site will support high-speed laser communications under ESA-backed Greek connectivity work.

  • South Korea helicopter package deepens maritime aviation build-up

    South Korea helicopter package deepens maritime aviation build-up

    South Korea’s latest helicopter approvals add weight to its maritime aviation and attack helicopter modernisation, extending demand across airframes, sensors, weapons, engines, sustainment, and integration work tied to Indo-Pacific deterrence.

  • Northrop wins RangeHawk contract

    Northrop wins RangeHawk contract

    Northrop Grumman has won a RangeHawk contract for hypersonic testing. The award adds airborne telemetry and tracking capacity for advanced U.S. weapons trials.

  • Ukraine readies domestic glide bomb

    Ukraine readies domestic glide bomb

    Ukraine is readying a domestically designed glide bomb for combat. The weapon moves wartime precision-strike development into local production through Brave1 and DG Industry.

  • Aeralis enters administration

    Aeralis enters administration

    Aeralis has entered administration after failing to secure development funding. The collapse halts a UK modular jet trainer concept before aircraft production could begin.