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India and Russia have begun work on their multi-role transport aircraft (MTA) programme after several rounds of negotiations between officials from both countries.

EADS has completed a new series of flight tests using its Barracuda unmanned air vehicle technology demonstrator, which it says validated "advanced technologies and new procedures under realistic conditions".

Moscow has selected Kazan to manufacture a previously undisclosed long-range strike aircraft, Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has revealed.

The UK Royal Air Force has released the first images of three Eurofighter Typhoons in the markings of its newly reformed 6 Sqn.

Israel Aerospace Industries' Bedek unit has conducted a successful series of flight trials involving a modified Boeing 767 tanker for Colombia, and says a lucrative market exists for additional customers.

The UK Royal Air Force will this month move a step closer to retiring its last Panavia Tornado F3 fighters, with a new unit to be stood up at its Leuchars air base in Scotland with the replacement Eurofighter Typhoon.

L-3 MAS is lobbying the Canadian government to negotiate a greater role on the Lockheed Martin F-35 programme.

The Polish air force has completed its third period of providing air policing cover for Baltic states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, with four RSK MiG-29s having returned to its Minsk Mazowiecki air base on 1 September.

The UK Royal Air Force's first A330 multi-role tanker/transport has emerged from a modification hangar at Airbus Military's Getafe site near Madrid, Spain, ahead of flight-testing from later this month.

Israel Aerospace Industries will receive a multi-year contract from Lockheed Martin to manufacture up to 900 wing pairs for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter under a new industrial co-operation agreement.

The US Department of Homeland Security will have the entire US-Mexico border under unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) surveillance as of 1 Sept., officials say.

The first commercial demonstration in the U.S. of a required navigation performance (RNP) landing developed privately and approved by the FAA will take place today when an American Airlines jet lands at Bradley International Airport in Hartford, Conn.

Israel is pressing ahead with its purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, after securing U.S. approval to install Israeli munitions on the aircraft and a pledge to adjust the electronic warfare suite to emerging Middle East threats.

A strategy unveiled by the US Navy three months ago to install a stealthy unmanned aircraft system (UAS) aboard aircraft carriers by 2018 may seem ambitious, but the service's top officer wants the capability to arrive even faster.

The US Navy's top officer emphasised new urgency for placing a stealthy, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) on carrier decks no later than 2018, but also made it clear the requirement cannot come at the expense of the Navy's commitment to the Lockheed Martin F-35C programme.

LONDON — The Netherlands is in the final stages of negotiating the U.S. foreign military sale acquisition of the Boeing Small-Diameter Bomb (SDB-I) for use from its F-16 fighters, to help meet standoff requirements.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is too savvy to expect applause from the military-industrial complex for suggesting the way it has been doing business in recent decades is untenable going forward. But he is doing a favor to the services, the Defense Department and contractors in trying to fundamentally rebalance missions and program priorities to make the U.S. military more efficient, effective and focused.