Aviation World
Raytheon is moving its AMRAAM Extended Range missile into full-rate production under a new $234.8 million contract from the Department of War. The...Read more
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, announced on April 15, 2026, a new line of Armed Black Hawk helicopter kits designed to transform the...Read more
Despite repeated U.S. and Israeli claims that Iran’s air force had been destroyed or rendered combat-ineffective, confirmed OSINT data and post-ceasefire sightings now...Read more
The United Kingdom’s National Armaments Director Group has awarded a £879 million (approximately $1.1 billion) three-year contract to Boeing Defence UK to maintain...Read more
Britain’s Ministry of Defence announced on April 15, 2026, that it will deliver at least 120,000 drones to Ukraine this year in the...Read more
The U.S. Air Force’s B-21 Raider stealth bomber has successfully conducted aerial refueling with a KC-135 Stratotanker as part of its ongoing flight...Read more
A Japanese defense technology startup has begun offering a domestically produced fixed-wing drone, with a unit cost of approximately 70,000 yen — roughly...Read more
Ukrainian long-range strike drones hit the JSC Sintez-Kauchuk plant in Sterlitamak early Wednesday, April 15, in one of the deepest reported strikes against...Read more
On April 6th, 2026, Lufthansa operated two special flights to commemorate its 100th anniversary, which were numbered LH1926 and LH2026. Flight LH1926 was operated by the Boeing 787-9...Read more
Bombardier Celebrates Valued Customer Vista’s First Global 8000 Aircraft April 15, 2026Read more
Satellite images published Tuesday provide the first visual confirmation that the April 11 fire at Russia’s Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant — known as KnAAZ...Read more
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Textron Aviation Defense LLC has been awarded a five-year U.S. government contract valued at over $150 million to continue providing sustaining engineering and...Read more
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force are accelerating development of the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile, with the program now targeting a...Read more
Groupe Rocher and Dassault Systèmes Embark on New Collaboration to Transform Natural Cosmetics Formulation Through Virtual Twin TechnologyRead more
DFA Systems, an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based startup, said Monday it will bring its Precision Flying Grenade to ISOF Range 2026, a live-fire defense...Read more
German defense conglomerate Rheinmetall and European aerospace and defense company Destinus have agreed to establish a joint venture focused on the production of...Read more
Turkish Bayraktar KIZILELMA unmanned combat air vehicle successfully detected a passenger airliner at a range of 110 kilometers during a performance validation test...Read more
Turkish defense electronics giant ASELSAN has completed factory acceptance tests for its LGK-82 Laser Guidance Kit and commenced serial deliveries of the domestically...Read more
Japan’s fiscal year 2026 defense budget, enacted on April 7, includes ¥11.1 billion ($69.7 million) earmarked for the acquisition of five “wide-area UAVs” for...Read more
Bombardier Announces April 15, 2026 as the Start of its New Normal Course Issuer Bid April 13, 2026 ...Read more
The Alaska Air National Guard’s 168th Wing accepted four additional KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling aircraft at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, expanding the...Read more
A fire erupted inside the grounds of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant (KnAAZ) named after Yuri Gagarin, Russia’s sole serial manufacturer of the Su-57...Read more
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The U.S. Air Force has begun early market research for the remanufacture of a key defensive electronic warfare component used on the B-2...Read more
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Talon Avionics, a defense technology company headquartered in Boise, Idaho, has developed a new type of drone intercept system called SECTR. It is...Read more
Britain’s Ministry of Defence announced on Friday that it has contracted Cambridge Aerospace to supply a significant quantity of Skyhammer drone interceptors, with...Read more
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we make a special trip to space and await Artemis II’s return to Earth. A tenuous cease fire in Iran leads to the first airspace re-openings, but a lack...Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kyiv is preparing to begin mass production of interceptor drones built to take down fast-moving aerial threats,...Read more