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Britecloud, Leonardo's active countermeasure for protecting against missile threats to fighters, has a new version for use on larger, slower-moving platforms.

Leonardo DRS’s effort to land the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation trainer contract could be a long shot, but CEO Bill Lynn says its T-100 has the lowest-risk.

The school which dates to World War II is undertaking a radical transformation as it gears up to train a new generation of test pilots.

As Britain’s Royal Air Force has begun receiving the most capable Eurofighter Typhoons yet, as the four-nation program is gearing up for a wave of potential new sales.

Kallman says this airshow will be lively as a result of the projected growth in the commercial and military sectors, and increased funding by the U.S. government for defense programs.

Globally, the aerospace industry is worth an estimated US$838 billion, according to an analysis conducted by the AeroDynamic Advisory and Teal Group Corp.

Liebherr Aerospace & Transportation has partnered with automotive giant General Motors to develop an APU for future single-aisle aircraft, based on a hydrogen fuel cell.

NATS – the UK’s air-navigation service provider (ANSP) – may not be the first name to leap to mind when thinking of unmanned-aircraft operations. But the company has announced a number of strategic investments and partnerships in recent months that show it is seeking to occupy a pivotal position in the UK’s UAS ecosystem.

While nothing can be taken for granted, it appears a front-running position to power Boeing’s New Midsize Airplane (NMA) is CFM’s to lose as Boeing begins to evaluate proposals that engine makers submitted in late June.

The Society of British Aircraft Constructors’ ninth annual exhibition and flying display moved to Farnborough in 1948, and the event “pulled up the blinds on the biggest window display of planes and powerplants ever assembled,” Aviation Week reported.

Czech manufacturer Aero Vodochody is to announce additional orders for its L-39NG jet trainer at this year’s Farnborough Airshow.

Luxembourg-based Wijet is partly blaming Brexit for transferring its British air taxi operations to other European operators.

France is taking the lead in Franco-German efforts to produce a new European fighter aircraft. The widely expected decision was inked by French and German defense ministers as they moved to further underpin defense industrial relationships between the two countries.

The British government is expected to reveal a long-awaited roadmap to a future combat aircraft on Monday.

Foxconn Technology—aka Hon Hai Precision Industry Company—has broken ground on a US$10 billion facility in Wisconsin, bringing the manufacture of critical liquid crystal displays to an ex-Asia location for the first time.

If ways can be found to better harness the innovation and speed-of-movement of small and medium-size enterprises, the benefits to UK defense will be considerable.

Ontario's aerospace sector in 2018 remains strong, accounting for 25% of Canada's total, second only to Quebec at 50%, the Ontario Aerospace Council says.

Airbus and the government of Côte d’Ivoire signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a framework of collaboration to support the development of the country’s aerospace industry. The MoU was signed on June 15 by Amadou Koné, minister of transport of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, and Mikail Houari, president of Airbus Africa Middle East, in the presence of Daniel Kablan Duncan, vice president of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, and Guillaume Faury, president of Airbus Commercial Aircraft.

Flying once seemed impossible, until the earliest pioneers made it happen. More than a century later, commercial aviation is now the safest it has ever been. Here at Farnborough, the world is here to see the next level of flying innovation – things like drones, rockets, and other new vehicles.

The arrival of Britain’s first low-observable combat aircraft marks the Royal Air Force’s milestone centenary; now the UK Lightning Force is working toward initial operating capability at the end of the year.

Defense contractors are gearing up for a potential competition to replace the Royal Air Force’s Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning aircraft.

Airbus hopes to secure “several hundred" additional orders for the newly renamed A220—formerly the Bombardier CSeries—this year, according to Eric Schulz, Airbus’ chief commercial officer.

ATR is exhibiting an ATR 42-600 turboprop with a Silver Airways livery—thus illustrating the manufacturer’s hopes in regard to the U.S. market.

Open-system architectures and low-cost drones are at the heart of UK future combat aircraft thinking. And the UK Rapid Capability Office is speeding up the introduction of new capabilities.

Tactical Air Support Inc. is outfitting its F-5 supersonic fighter aircraft with a Garmin integrated flight deck and anticipates first flight with the new technology will be later this year.