At some point, company officials will need to discuss the fate of a separate production line for the A-29 Super Tucano in Jacksonville, Fla., but “[t]hat time has not come yet,” said Embraer’s Marcio Monteiro.

Supply shortages, damaged radars raise concerns about air and missile defense.

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Anduril, Shield AI and Collins have been tapped to develop the autonomy system for the collaborative combat aircraft.

Honeywell Aerospace executive Matthew Milas lays out Honeywell’s view on CCAs as a key platform-agnostic supplier.

The Air Force on June 17 identified the eight crew members who died in a fiery B-52H Stratofortress crash at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., two days earlier.

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“We need all hands on deck, we need as many of these as we can possibly get, and Divergent is good complimentary supply for [Raytheon],” said CEO Lukas Czinger.

Rutte also repeated messaging around the need for NATO allies to ramp up weapons production and deliver a stronger industrial base by making “steady” increases to defense investment plans.

The F-35 has only a 25% mission read rate.

No wonder Iran won the war.

The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter’s readiness rates continued to decline through fiscal 2025, with the fleet’s full mission capable rate falling to 25%, according to a new Government Accountability Office report released Thursday.

The mission capable rate, which measures the percentage of time aircraft can…

The Navy is seeking an unmanned aerial system that can operate from ships without a large flight deck to conduct long-range strikes.

Richard Knighton, chief of the UK defense staff, told a House of Lords committee today that he is “most concerned” about day-to-day operations budgeting.

This week on The Break Out, a brief review of small unmanned systems as well as space-launch options showcased at ILA Berlin 2026.

The news comes as Canada continued to debate whether to finalize a large procurement of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, or add in a procurement of Saab-made Gripen jets

EDGE CEO Hamad Al Marar told Breaking Defense the company is seeing high demand for its tech after it played a role in defending the United Arab Emirates from Iranian attacks.

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The Air Force is offering a few early hints of what it’s looking for in its next-generation replacement for the C-5 and C-17, including the ability to fly in and out of makeshift airfields on austere battlefields.

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Edwards Air Force Base said that “initial indications” are that the crash was “not survivable.”

Italy, Japan and the UK are committed to the future fighter effort, with a timeframe of 2035 marked for entry into service.

While Embraer is partnered with Saab to manufacture the Swedish jet, Embraer CEO Francisco Gomes Neto said the fighter market “is not a place that we want to go to,” adding that the company is “studying other segments first.”

The booths of some smaller Israeli firms are hidden behind temporary walls here, while spaces for larger companies are open but mostly devoid of weapons systems.

The Breaking Defense team wraps up the last day of the Berlin Air Show.

The Air Force would be able to sign multiyear contracts to buy F-35A Joint Strike Fighters and F-15EX Eagle II jets under the Senate’s version of a key defense policy bill.

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Boeing said the T-7A Red Hawk training jet they are producing for the Air Force doesn’t fulfill Navy requirements.

Two extra squadrons of F-35s would double the existing order, from 32 to 64.

“We found that these [civilian] officials can’t effectively carry out the office’s oversight responsibilities as they can’t always get access to relevant program information or meetings,” GAO said while listing three recommendations.

“It’s a game changer. It’s smaller, uses only 4kWh, can be connected to a vehicle, and is three to four times less expensive than current laser or microwave systems,” Erex Riahi, the CEO of Esh-Tech, said.

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One of the use-cases envisaged for the platform could be to “fly at high-speed and low-level in order to penetrate deep into enemy territory,” Marco Marinoni, head of the AH-249 acquisition program in the Italian Army, said.

Elbit said that the deal will include local manufacturing and assembly of the system with Diehl, to support “the development of sovereign capabilities and strengthening the German defense industry.”

The F-35’s full mission capable rate fell to to 25 percent in FY25, the government watchdog found.