Military aviation news
Sector news aggregated from reference outlets, always linking to the original source.
July 20, 2026
US President Donald Trump said the Boeing 747-8 donated by Qatar will temporarily be taken out of service… The post Trump says Qatar-gifted Air Force One will be taken out of service for upgrades…
July 17, 2026
Serbia and Mauritius have joined the Artemis Accords in the past two days, bringing the number of signatories to 70. Governments of any country are welcome to join the U.S.-led […]
"Missiles are being launched at the joint force every single day in [Operation] Epic Fury."
DARPA and the US Air Force have flown a modified F-16 under the control of an artificial intelligence… The post DARPA and US Air Force fly F-16 under AI control in VENOM tests appeared first on…
July 16, 2026
The Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have begun another set of tests with one of a group of Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-16 fighters fitted with […]
The Air Force planned buy of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) family may nearly quadruple over the future years defense plan (FYDP) through fiscal…
The US Air Force has fired a live air-to-air missile from a jet-powered combat drone for the first… The post US Air Force combat drone fires long-range missile for first time appeared first on…
This time on The Green Dot, hosts Hal and Sam are joined by U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ken Wilsbach, EAA 1079683, to chat about his path in aviation and experiences as a fighter pilot, his…
The Tranche 1 Transporter Layer E (T1TL-E) mission was the third batch of operational satellites launched to support the SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture satellite constellation…
July 15, 2026
Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites.
July 14, 2026
BAE Systems said on Monday that it has received a Boeing [BA] contract to provide the AN/ALQ-250 Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS) for Republic of Korea Air Force […]
The new satellites for missile warning, tracking and targeting are being developed under an “accelerated” schedule to meet the Pentagon’s 2028 plans for demonstrating its Golden Dome missile defense…
Then we talk about what happened at the NATO summit and what’s to come at the Farnborough air show.
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A Boeing P-8A Poseidon of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) launched two AGM-84 Harpoon missiles on 27 June. This event was significant, since it was the first time the RNZAF platform had…
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July 13, 2026
L3Harris Technologies has received a contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) to produce 18 Accelerated Missile Defense Tranche 3 (AMDT3) satellites to support the Golden…
Northrop Grumman [NOC] believes its LITENING Large Aperture (LA) pod undergoing operational test with the Air Force will be able to contribute to the defeat of adversary drones, a company […]
July 10, 2026
The House Appropriations Committee’s fiscal 2027 defense bill includes $180 million for more Air Force HH-60W Jolly Green II combat search and rescue helicopters by Lockheed Martin [LMT], as the […]
July 9, 2026
U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded Leidos [LDOS] a more than $27.2 million fixed price incentive contract for procurement of the company’s AGM-190A “Havoc Spear” Small Cruise…
Germany will purchase Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States and station them on German soil.
July 8, 2026
NATO is to buy up to 10 GlobalEye aircraft by Sweden’s Saab that may replace nearly all of the alliance’s aging 14 Boeing [BA] E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System […]
July 7, 2026
You may not know the Aechelon name, but if you’ve flown for the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or Special Operations community, there’s a good chance you’ve trained in one of our…
“It is genuinely made in NATO and is creating jobs on both sides of the Atlantic,” alliance Secretary-General Mark Rutte said.
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Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, July 7, 2026 — Boeing’s [NYSE: BA] MQ-28 Ghost Bat has participated in Exercise Valiant Shield alongside F-35A, F-35B, F-15EX, HC-130, E-3, E-2D,...
July 6, 2026
As the Pentagon posits future confrontations involving advanced adversary aircraft and drone swarms, the U.S. Air Force wants rapid prototyping to develop and field 1,000 to 3,500 supersonic…
While the US Space Force is a separate military branch, it still relies on the Air Force for some capabilities, including lawyers. Todd Pennington discusses why evolutions in both the Space Force…
July 2, 2026
The U.S. Air Force’s Point Defense Battle Lab (PDBL) at Grand Forks AFB, N.D., wants companies to submit their ideas on counter small unmanned aircraft systems (C-sUAS) by July 31, […]
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<p>Before retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Isola could help tell the stories of 108 Air Force Academy women in <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.necessaryturbulence.com/"…
