The UK’s Royal Navy has called on industry to provide information on electromagnetic catapults and arrestor wire systems that could launch and recover aircraft weighing 20 metric tons.

The partnership between France and Germany to develop a European Future Combat Air System (FCAS) may be close to fracturing, a group made up of experts from industry and academia has suggested. 

A cyberattack on a newly acquired manufacturing asset and a foreign policy shift by the new Biden administration combined to overshadow topsized financial results disclosed by aerospace supplier Kaman on Feb. 26.

Safran is negotiating a new agreement with Germany’s MTU Aero Engines and Spain’s ITP Aero after the latter joined the engine program for the Future Combat Air System.

U.S. Naval Air Force Atlantic has conducted a demonstration of an unmanned aerial system prototype that is designed to provide long-range cargo transport to vessels at sea.

The UK Royal Air Force has completed the last operational flight of its Sentinel wide area surveillance radar-reconnaissance aircraft in readiness for the type’s retirement at the end of March.

The maritime patrol configuration will include a mission suite consisting of a Telephonics RDR-1700B synthetic aperture radar and a Flir Star SAFIRE 380-HD electro-optical/infrared sensor.

A two-seat Mirage F1B providing adversary air training services to the U.S. Air Force crashed off the end of the flight line at approximately 11:25 am on Feb. 25 at Tyndall AFB, Florida. One of the pilots ejected.