Iraq is purchasing South Korea's KM-SAM II medium-range, ground-based air defense system, becoming the third Middle Eastern nation to acquire it.

Paris has revealed further details of France and Italy's plans to acquire a new version of the SAMP/T as it rushes upgrade air and missile defense capabilities.

Increasingly, defense plans in Europe are converting to contracts for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 and Eurofighter’s Typhoon, giving industry executives on both sides of the Atlantic reason to be optimistic.

U.S. Special Operations Command now intends to buy a fleet of 62 of the L3Harris and Air Tractor aircraft.

The EU effort to create a sovereign satellite communications network, known as IRIS², should be unaffected by the exit of Thierry Breton from the EC, program backers say.

A key element of the ROKAF's force strengthening is the commitment to deploying the its growing fighter fleet alongside attritable uncrewed aircraft that will serve as loyal wingmen and force multipliers.

The entire V-22 fleet is still limited in its operations, including a requirement that it stays within 30 min. of a divert location.

Following the appointment of the EU's first Commissioner for Defense and Space, a European Commission official has laid out key areas that Andrius Kubilius will focus on.