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In the shifting balance of air power and rapidly evolving threats, few aircraft carry as much weight, both symbolic and practical, as the F-35. For the US Air Force, the Lightning II isn’t an ordinary fighter jet: it represents the backbone of future combat capability, thanks to its incredible multirole capabilities. In our guide, we’ll explore why the F-35 plays such a pivotal role, how it compares to legacy forces, and what challenges lie ahead. To understand the F-35’s central importance, we will study its design, operational roles, strategic value, and its place in a complex defense ecosystem. We will…

Regional aircraft leasing company TrueNoord has placed an order for 20 Embraer E195-E2 jets, with options to purchase up to 30 more, in a deal worth USD $1.8 billion.  In a statement released on October 14, 2025, Embraer announced that the additional 30 jets include 20 E195-E2 and up to 10 E175-E1 aircraft.  CEO of TrueNoord Anne-Bart Tieleman said that this is the company’s first direct order with an aircraft manufacturer.  “It marks an important stepping stone in our continued growth as a global leasing platform, underlining our commitment to investing in next-generation, fuel-efficient regional jets,” Tieleman said  The E195-E2…

Never mind the mere beta status of the Army’s new app for operating howitzers, soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado, were itching to find out whether four decades of the existing, error-prone system were finally coming to an end.So they hooked up their M777 to the novel Artillery Execution Suite during an exercise last month and pulled the lanyard.Users of the legacy software, the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System, had become accustomed to working around problems.Troubleshooting was just the normal part of operating the system, Maj. Gen. Patrick Ellis, the 4th ID commander, told Defense…

United Airlines is preparing to take its next steps into the future with the operation of its first passenger-carrying flight offering Starlink WiFi. The Star Alliance founding member has chosen a service from Newark to Houston tomorrow morning, with a special flight number, to debut the technology. This won’t just represent the first Starlink-equipped mainline flight at United Airlines, but, in fact, it will be “the first time a major US airline has offered Starlink Wi-Fi on a mainline flight with connectivity across both personal devices and in-flight entertainment screens.” The carrier has made a considerable commitment to the technology,…

The Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of British Airways, Andy Best, delivered the airline keynote speech on the first day of MRO Europe 2025 from the Excel London exhibition center.   Delivering an overview of British Airways over the past year, Best told a gathered industry audience that not one engine had been delivered on time in 2025 by its main engine providers.   “This is the reality, we’re seeing it. Those failures just pass risk into our operation. Of course we have to manage the risk. We get around it,” said Best  He added: “It undermines our commitments that we have with…

By Defense News Oct 14, 2025, 01:46 PMsource

At present, growth in the global aviation industry is being spearheaded by the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. According to a June 2025 report by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), APAC is experiencing the fastest air travel expansion of 2025, its 9% year-over-year growth accounting for 52% of the industry’s overall growth. IATA attributes this surge partly to the resurgence of international travel. image Image: IATA The region’s surge in growth is supported by Airbus’ latest Global Services Forecast (GSF) for 2025-2043.  The European aircraft manufacturer anticipates a need for 999,000 new skilled professionals in the APAC region (nearly 45%…

The Army’s long-awaited watercraft strategy charts a course that prioritizes sustaining an aging fleet, leveraging commercial solutions and accelerating experimentation with autonomous vessels, according to senior service leaders who helped craft it.The new strategy, which has yet to be published publicly, takes “a much more holistic or comprehensive approach to Army watercraft,” Lt. Gen. Karl Gingrich, the Army deputy chief of staff G-8 chief, told Defense News in a recent interview. The Army “is not going to be able to build watercraft or build ourselves out of this challenge,” Gingrich said. “The time is not there. The resources aren’t there,…

This past Sunday was an unlucky date for the United Kingdom’s busiest hub: London Heathrow Airport (LHR). The events that caused so many travel headaches at Heathrow were quite dramatic, owing to a 170 mph tail strike involving an arriving widebody twinjet operating a cargo flight. The DHL freighter jet that unfortunately scraped the tarmac during its go-around was arriving from Leipzig, Germany, as cameras caught the incident on tape. The landing approach was unstable when the plane came in on the ill-fated first attempt, but the jet did make a safe touchdown on its next attempt. A Rough Sunday…

Saab has received an order worth approximately SEK 2.6 billion ($238 million) from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for continued conceptual studies on future fighter systems. The new contract, covering the 2025–2027 period, builds upon the original agreement signed in March 2024 and expands the scope of work under Sweden’s Koncept för Framtida Stridsflyg (KFS) – or Future Combat Aviation Concept study. According to Saab, the order encompasses studies of both manned and unmanned solutions “in a system-of-systems perspective,” as well as related technology development and demonstrator programs. The company will continue to collaborate with FMV, the Swedish Armed…