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The Italian parliament has backed the country’s involvement in the Global Combat Air Program with Japan and the UK, keeping the program on track to move into its next phase.

The purchase was announced by Leonardo on Nov. 8.

Leonardo expects the industrial agreement on the trinational Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) to be finalized before year’s end.

The defense contractor’s revenue and earnings per share in the September quarter both exceeded Wall Street’s consensus estimate.

Defense officials have hailed the system after it successfully defeated incoming heat-seeking missiles fired simultaneously.

Airbus wants to extend battlefield connectivity of the Future Combat Air System to its helicopters.

As the threat of wildfires grows, industry prepares new fleets of modern fixed-wing aircraft to tackle them.

With CCA increasingly eyed for EW, Leonardo has developed a lightweight, low-cost, stand-in jamming capability that could help protect force packages.

The manufacturer is flight-testing the AW249 attack helicopter to meet Italian Army and international needs.

A growing reputation from global air forces is putting Italy’s International Flight Training School on the map.

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If certified, the system may significantly improve helicopter flight safety.

Leonardo and WB aim to cooperate on autonomous air systems and loitering munitions equipped with artificial intelligence and swarm capabilities.

Warsaw is looking to translate large fighter, helicopter and weapons purchases into a stronger defense industrial footprint.

The flagship UK helicopter modernization program has suffered delays and shrunk in size before a contract has even been signed.

Not only are supply chain issues affecting offshore helicopter operations failing to improve, they are now spreading to other helicopter manufacturers, the energy industry’s trade body warns.

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An expanding helicopter fleet will drive an increase in MRO demand over the next decade.

Roberto Cingolani wants his company to play a greater role in the global aerostructures business and shape the development of new-generation combat aircraft.

Compound, conventional rotorcraft and tiltrotors are among the technologies being proposed by industry for NATO’s future rotorcraft needs.

Leonardo DRS is confident demand for its defense solutions will be sustained, given persistent geopolitical tensions, the company’s management said.

NSPA issued a tender for three contracts with industry to deliver up to six rotorcraft concepts that could meet the current NGRC specifications.

Despite the upcoming UK defense review, Global Combat Air Program industrial partners have been encouraged by ministerial interest in the project at Farnborough.

In addition to work on the Global Combat Air Program, a Boeing 757 flight-test aircraft, called Excalibur, is being adapted to trial new technology elements.

Seven years after a pivotal demonstration, the service takes a key step toward fielding autonomous resupply rotorcraft.