Aerospace

The US Air Force is planning early T-7A capability upgrades. Navigation resilience, collision avoidance, flight-control changes, emergency support, and cockpit improvements must be introduced while production, certification, and fleet entry continue.

Dassault and Harmattan have flown NAMIB with a Rafale F4. The demonstration connects radar detection, geolocation, autonomous flight, targeting data, and crewed-aircraft integration within a compact European electronic-warfare system.

India has approved a fixed-wing high-altitude pseudo-satellite acquisition requirement programme. The decision opens a demanding domestic aerospace opportunity spanning lightweight structures, solar generation, energy storage, flight control, communications, and persistent intelligence payloads.

Australia has launched Aladdin from a C-130J during Jericho Dawn. The air-dropped drone extends small-load resupply options while testing whether a rapidly developed system can be manufactured, stored, and supported at useful scale.

MQ-25’s second flight places software directly onto the production line. Landing-gear cycles and revised code now feed directly into carrier integration.

Prague’s first C-390 arrival deepens Europe’s expanding airlift manufacturing network. The fleet’s success now depends on component supply, training, maintenance, and common support.

NNSA has cleared a B61-13 production marker ahead of schedule. Certification work at Y-12 highlights throughput inside the US nuclear weapons enterprise.

JLWS will push high-energy lasers toward deployable air defence systems. The US programme is scaling containerised weapons toward the 300–500 kW class.

Honeywell is developing export-flexible defence technologies for European customers onshore. The work gives aerospace suppliers a clearer route around US re-export restrictions.