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The UK operates an aging fleet of Puma support helicopters rapidly approaching the end of their service lives.
Women continue to face disadvantages in the workplace, despite efforts to raise awareness of preconceptions about gender roles.
The global pandemic has inevitably hit production rates for the F-35, but Lockheed Martin hopes to begin clawing back lost time in the fall.
While many see a single European FCAS program being the best way forward, national ambitions are suggesting that this will not happen any time soon.
From Learjet 75s to Global 7500s, Bombardier's range of business jets stand as candidates for special mission conversion.
While the Tempest has become a trinational program, the UK’s industrial team is already making good progress with technology demonstrations.
The Pentagon has issued a contract to Lockheed Martin to deliver new-production F-35As to the U.S. Air Force instead of Turkey.
The UK’s defense industry has adopted new practices to tackle Covid challenges, while also continuing to deliver on key programs.
In its ongoing search for an F-5 replacement the Indonesian air force has shown interest in the Austrian Typhoons, whose future is far from certain.
Deliveries of Typhoons with electronically-scanned array radars are approaching, but new development paths are emerging among the original partners.
