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Pentagon Commits $820 Million to Performance Drone Works to Cut China Reliance

Pentagon Commits $820 Million to Performance Drone Works to Cut China Reliance

The United States Department of War has offered up to $820 million in loan financing to Performance Drone Works to build domestic manufacturing capacity for critical drone components, part of a federal push to rebuild American supply chains for unmanned systems. The Office of Strategic Capital announced the conditional loan

Saab Secures SEK 10.1bn GlobalEye Order From Unnamed Middle East Buyer

Saab Secures SEK 10.1bn GlobalEye Order From Unnamed Middle East Buyer

An unnamed Middle Eastern state has ordered two Saab GlobalEye airborne early warning and control aircraft, raising the possibility that the system has secured its second operator in the region. Saab values the contract at SEK 10.1 billion, around $1.04 billion, with both aircraft due for delivery in

BAE Systems Unveils Brontanax as Britain Re-enters Combat Drone Race

BAE Systems Unveils Brontanax as Britain Re-enters Combat Drone Race

BAE Systems has unveiled Brontanax, Britain’s first domestically designed Collaborative Combat Aircraft, with a first flight planned for 2027 and availability for Royal Air Force service targeted before the end of the decade. The aircraft gives Britain a tangible route back into a global competition it had appeared to

UK Awards BAE Systems £708m for Tempest Work Under GCAP

UK Awards BAE Systems £708m for Tempest Work Under GCAP

Britain has awarded BAE Systems a £708 million contract extension for future combat-air technology, securing the national work underpinning Tempest after months of British budget delays had weakened confidence in the wider Global Combat Air Programme. The award completes a rapid stabilisation of Britain’s position in GCAP. Earlier

Northrop Grumman and Airbus Sign MOU on NATO MQ-4C Triton Fleet

Northrop Grumman and Airbus Sign MOU on NATO MQ-4C Triton Fleet

Northrop Grumman has signed a memorandum of understanding with Airbus Defence and Space covering plans to supply NATO with up to five MQ-4C Triton surveillance aircraft, formalising the role of a major European partner in the proposed programme. The companies signed the agreement during the NATO Summit Defence Industry

Four NATO States Order Up to Five MQ-4C Triton Surveillance Drones

Four NATO States Order Up to Five MQ-4C Triton Surveillance Drones

Denmark, Finland, Germany and Norway agreed to acquire up to five Northrop Grumman Corp. MQ-4C Triton surveillance aircraft for NATO, signing a letter of intent on Tuesday at the alliance's annual summit in Ankara. The high-altitude drones would join NATO's alliance-owned intelligence force

Denmark’s P-8 Buy Shows Boeing Is Winning Europe’s Submarine-Hunting North

Denmark’s P-8 Buy Shows Boeing Is Winning Europe’s Submarine-Hunting North

Denmark is buying Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, joining a northern group of NATO allies that are standardising around the same American submarine-hunting jet as Russia’s undersea threat returns to the centre of European defence planning. Copenhagen said on Tuesday it would acquire two P-8As