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Chinese Victory Day Parade Spotlights New Weapon Priorities | Aviation Week Network https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Skip to main content Chen Chuanren September 10, 2025 The submarine-fired, hypersonic YJ-19 missile made its debut in the parade. Credit: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images During the Cold War, Western intelligence agencies scrutinized every May Victory Day parade in Moscow for a glimpse of the latest Soviet weapons. Today, those agencies look to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where the People’s Liberation Army uses milestone anniversaries to show off its progress and… Chen Chuanren Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air…
The Airbus A350 XWB is the European firm’s flagship aircraft. Consisting of three variants, the smaller A350-900, the larger A350-1000, and the A350F sized in between the two, the XWB has received nearly 1,500 orders. While it appears similar in size to the Airbus A330, its extra width means that it seats more passengers overall while being more comfortable than the Boeing 787, which seats the same number of passengers per row in economy but has a narrower fuselage. The A350 is the widest single-deck aircraft that Airbus has produced, but it’s not the widest airliner on the market today.…
REGISTER NOW: What DSEI and AFA Tell Us About the State of Defense as We Head Into Fiscal 2026 | Aviation Week Network https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Skip to main content Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025 10:00 EDT | 15:00 BST | 16:00 CEST Aviation Week editors discuss what the DSEI and Air Force Association gatherings in September tell us about the trajectory of major development and production programs as we head into the new U.S. fiscal year. Editors will share their… REGISTER NOW: What DSEI and AFA Tell Us About the State of Defense as We Head Into Fiscal 2026 is part of…
Since its inception in 2001, the F-35 Lightning II program has expanded to become the largest combat aircraft project in history. The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), another name for the F-35 has production lines in Fort Worth as well as Cameri, Italy, and a final-assembly site in Nagoya, Japan. It is a vast enterprise that includes data centers on two continents, continuously updating the type’s software. Twenty countries now fly or have ordered the fifth-generation fighter. Still, the core of the program is made up of the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Italy. Together, they will field…
Rafael Begins Naval Iron Beam Work | Aviation Week Network https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Skip to main content This article is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report part of Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN), and is complimentary through Oct 09, 2025. For information on becoming an AWIN Member to access more content like this, click here. Robert Wall October 09, 2025 Rafael showed the full-scale beam director for Iron Beam the first time at this year’s DSEI. Credit: Robert Wall/Aviation Week Network LONDON—Rafael has launched the industrial phase of adapting its Iron Beam high-power laser air defense system for maritime applications.The effort…
The United States has one of the largest aviation networks in the world, with hundreds of airports handling millions of travelers every month. Over the past few years, the industry has moved from the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic to a period of steady recovery. Passenger traffic is climbing back faster than in many other regions as major hubs return to full capacity and both domestic and international travel demand strengthens. California is home to several of the nation’s busiest airports, which together serve as vital links for travelers moving across the country and around the world. In June 2025,…
MBDA Finalizes Design Shape For Future Cruise Missile | Aviation Week Network https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Skip to main content This article is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report part of Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN), and is complimentary through Oct 09, 2025. For information on becoming an AWIN Member to access more content like this, click here. Robert Wall September 09, 2025 MBDA’s stealthy subsonic Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon design, on display at DSEI 2025 in London. Credit: Robert Wall/Aviation Week Network STEVENAGE, England—After the Paris Air show provided the backdrop for MBDA to showcase the final design of a future supersonic…
The Eurofighter Typhoon has been lauded for much of the last two decades as one of the most agile and capable multirole combat aircraft in the world. The rise of stealth fighters in recent years has made it grow more outdated in the face of a changing paradigm in air warfare. A growing number of analysts, and even some of its operators, have started to see it as obsolete, like the National Security Journal recently wrote. Some envision a future where the Typhoon is limited to low-end duties, freeing up valuable airframe hours for more costly stealth aircraft. The question…
SMBC Aviation Capital Makes Big Bet With Air Lease Corp. Acquisition | Aviation Week Network https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Skip to main content Jens Flottau September 09, 2025 Steve Udvar-Házy doing what he likes most: buying aircraft, here with Airbus Commercial Aircraft CEO Christian Scherer and ALC CEO John Plueger at the 2019 Paris Air Show. Credit: A. Doumenjou/Airbus Steven Udvar-Házy made a big decision in June 1990. He sold International Lease Finance Corp., the aircraft lessor that made him famous in the aviation industry, to American International Group for $1.3 billion but stayed on as CEO. As it turned out, he got…
Resume Normal Speed Used by ATC to advise a pilot to resume an aircraft’s normal operating speed. It is issued to terminate a speed adjustment where no published speed restrictions apply. It does not delete speed restrictions in published procedures of upcoming segments of flight. This does not relieve the pilot of those speed restrictions that are applicable to 14 CFR Section 91.117.