Aerospace

  • MBDA FastTrack moves missile advantage into software

    MBDA FastTrack moves missile advantage into software

    MBDA has compressed cruise-missile planning into a sharper software contest. FastTrack links AI-assisted routing, terrain data, radar modelling, weather inputs, and operator workflows to the strike-weapons chain.

  • Unimech’s FACC win turns aerospace ambition into qualification work

    Unimech’s FACC win turns aerospace ambition into qualification work

    Unimech has moved deeper into Europe’s aerospace manufacturing supply chain. Its FACC agreement now shifts into qualification, process validation, first-article approvals, and production-readiness work before serial output can begin.

  • China’s sixth-generation fighter glimpse sharpens the combat-air race

    China’s sixth-generation fighter glimpse sharpens the combat-air race

    China has given its next fighter a controlled public glimpse. The aircraft linked to the J-36 effort reinforces a deeper industrial race in stealth shaping, engines, software, thermal management, sensors, and combat-air production readiness.

  • Cheonryong gives South Korea’s strike industry its next test

    Cheonryong gives South Korea’s strike industry its next test

    South Korea’s Cheonryong missile has cleared a critical flight milestone. The powered FA-50 test moves the indigenous deep-strike weapon closer to KF-21 integration, serial production, and a more self-reliant Korean precision-weapons supply chain.

  • Raytheon’s .1bn Sidewinder deal is a factory test

    Raytheon’s $1.1bn Sidewinder deal is a factory test

    Raytheon has won a $1.1bn AIM-9X Block II production contract. The order reinforces pressure across short-range missile assembly, seekers, propulsion, energetics, software, and allied stockpile demand.

  • Australia pushes Peregrine north for first operational tests

    Australia pushes Peregrine north for first operational tests

    Australia’s MC-55A Peregrine has begun test flights from northern Darwin. The deployment links Gulfstream conversion, L3Harris mission systems, electronic warfare payloads, and northern sustainment infrastructure.

  • Japan’s drone surge eyes a car factory

    Japan’s drone surge eyes a car factory

    Anduril is exploring Nissan’s Oppama plant for Japanese drone production. The talks bring automotive capacity, workforce conversion, autonomous systems, and local defence manufacturing into the same industrial frame.

  • Affordable strike now needs engine factories

    Affordable strike now needs engine factories

    Kratos is putting propulsion factories behind affordable strike ambitions now. The Spartan turbojet ramp highlights engines as a production bottleneck for missiles, loitering munitions, and autonomous systems.

  • AMRAAM’s next variants pull allies into missile development

    AMRAAM’s next variants pull allies into missile development

    AMRAAM’s next variants are drawing allied funding into development work. RTX’s agreement covers D4 and C9 design activity, export-partner finance, and future production pressure.

  • Britain’s combat air demonstrator enters the factory test

    Britain’s combat air demonstrator enters the factory test

    Britain’s combat air demonstrator is now testing the factory itself. The aircraft brings GCAP risk reduction into structures, software, propulsion integration, ejection systems, and digital manufacturing.