Airbus Defence has started assembling Eurofighter Typhoon combat jets ordered by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe). Project Quadriga will see the air force receive 30 single-seat and eight twin-seat Tranche 4 Eurofighters to replace 38 Tranche 1 aircraft that are being retired
Finlands Patria will start producing F-35 Forward Fuselage Assemblies under a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) the company signed with Lockheed Martin. “This agreement between Patria and Lockheed Martin on F-35 Forward Fuselage Assembly is a significant milestone for Finland´s F-35 programme and Patria
Germanys defense procurement office (BAAINBw) has selected Saabs Arexis sensor suite as the preferred solution for the German Eurofighter Electronic Warfare (EW) variant. At this point, Saab has not yet signed a contract nor received an order relating to this
British companies including BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce involved in the
Pentagon will not be accepting F-35 Joint Strike Fighters outfitted with Tech Refresh 3 (TR-3) hardware starting next month. The
Indonesia has reportedly been covertly negotiating the purchase of a dozen Mirage 2000-5EDA aircraft from Qatar, with the agreement of France. Prabowo Subianto, Indonesias defense minister, announced the country would purchase Mirage 2000 jets during a speech at the Grand Reunion of Retired Indonesian Warriors (PPIR) at the Jogja Expo Center (JEC), Yogyakarta on May 3, 2023
Boeing mis-drilled windscreen installation holes on four F-15EXs in lot 1B, pushing the aircrafts delivery schedule back by a couple of weeks. Company engineers committed the mistake because they used wrong tools
The Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) has extended and expanded its contract with Kongsberg to overhaul and make ready for sale a total of 32 F-16 combat aircraft. The agreement also includes technical assistance and support for the training of Romanian technical personnel
Turkeys Hürjet trainer and light attack aircraft made its first flight with landing gear closed. Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) aims to produce two Hürjet aircraft each month after 2025
Turkey first indigenous unmanned fighter Bayraktar Kızılelma has cleared all tests and is progressing towards serial production, with plans to commence in 2024. The Kızılelma rolled off Baykar Technologys production line in November 2022
A team from Indias Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) are in Argentina as part of the countrys evaluation of the Tejas light combat aircraft. The team reached Argentina on June 5 and will be there until June 9