Archer Aviation is acquiring Boeing’s Wisk Aero, Insitu, and SkyGrid subsidiaries in an all-stock deal that makes Boeing Archer’s largest outside shareholder — and turns a five-year-old eVTOL company into a genuine defense and autonomy contender overnight.Continue Reading
Dassault has submitted detailed proposals for 114 Rafales, with 94 to be built in India under technology transfer — a bid that could reshape India’s air combat fleet and deepen Indo-French industrial ties for a generation.Continue Reading
A new Congressional Budget Office estimate puts the Trump-class battleship program’s price tag well above initial expectations — and warns that America’s shipbuilding industrial base may not be able to deliver it on schedule regardless of cost.Continue Reading
A Ukrainian drone-and-missile manufacturer is stitching together radars, seekers, and guidance systems from more than a dozen European suppliers to field a working ballistic interceptor by mid-2027. It’s a preview of how urgent, and how fractured, Europe’s air-defense buildout has become.Continue Reading
A roundup of every new tender, RFI, and RFP that opened this week across India, the UK, the US, Ukraine/NATO, New Zealand, and Italy — from a $1.9 billion Indian Army drone drive to a US Air Force VTOL bomber concept.Continue Reading