QinetiQ has agreed a five-year contract extension worth £205 million with the UK Ministry of Defence to continue providing engineering services for the Royal Air Force’s Typhoon aircraft.

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The first flight of the Royal Navy’s Proteus autonomous helicopter is a visible milestone, but the aircraft’s importance lies less in the airframe and more in the operational pressure that led to its development.

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NATO warships operating in the High North have carried out joint air defence training with Norwegian F-35 fighter aircraft as part of a wider maritime deployment aimed at strengthening readiness in the region.

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Lockheed Martin has completed the first flight test of its Next-Generation Short-Range Interceptor, a system being developed as a potential successor to the Stinger missile, according to the company.

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MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters have completed their first operational security mission supporting a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile convoy at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, the U.S. Air Force stated.

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GE Aerospace and Lockheed Martin have completed a series of engine tests demonstrating a liquid-fuelled rotating detonation ramjet intended for hypersonic missile applications, according to the company.

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Northrop Grumman has delivered its 1,500th centre fuselage for the F-35 Lightning II programme from its Integrated Assembly Line in Palmdale, California.

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Croatia has begun policing its own airspace using Rafale multirole fighters, marking the country’s full integration into NATO’s Integrated Air and Missile Defence framework.

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  The Ministry of Defence has said it is continually reviewing command arrangements for the UK’s ground-based air defence as part of wider efforts to protect critical national infrastructure, while declining to provide detail on how planned Integrated Air and Missile Defence spending will be divided between interceptors and supporting systems. In a series of […]

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Italian Eurofighters in Estonia were scrambled at around 11:30 today to intercept a Russian Beriev Be-200 aircraft.

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