The head of the U.S. Air Force’s mobility fleet needs more data from Boeing on the KC-46 Remote Vision System (RVS) upgrade plan to determine if an interim fix is worth taking the maintenance downtime.

A full-scale flight demonstrator for the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance program has already flown in secret and “broken records” in the process, a senior official said on Sept. 15. 

Although the U.S. Air Force proposed to terminate the General Atomics MQ-9 production line in the last budget cycle, the service may opt to employ the Reaper in a new way: as an attritable aircraft that the military can afford to lose in a war with China or Russia.

The German Army has begun to take delivery of Airbus Tiger attack helicopters with a new upgrade that will act as a baseline for Tiger Mk.3 development. 

Greece will purchase six new-build Dassault Rafales and receive 12 second-hand aircraft from French Air Force stocks, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has confirmed. 

The Klimov Co., a subsidiary of Russia’s United Engine Corp., plans to finish development of a new RD-93MA turbofan for the Sino-Pakistani JF-17 single-engine fighter next year.

Boeing’s MQ-25 carrier-based unmanned refueling test asset is out of commission because of “water intrusion,” according to a U.S. Navy official.

The organizer of Airshow China issued then retracted a cancellation announcement for the biennial exhibition set to be held at Zhuhai in November.