The Eurocopter TIger showed off its moves above the 2025 Paris Air Show. (Bartosz Głowacki/Breaking Defense)
The Airbus A400M takes to the skies about Le Bourget during the 2025 Paris AIr Show. (Bartosz Głowacki/Breaking Defense)
The Airbus Racer, an experimental compound helicopter, showed off at the 2025 Paris Air Show. (Bartosz Głowacki/Breaking Defense)
The Fouga CM170 above the skies of the Paris Air Show. (Bartosz Głowacki/Breaking Defense)
AVIC, a Chinese aerospace firm, came to the Paris Air Show 2025 to show of its wares. (Hélène de Lacoste / Breaking Defense)
An attendee takes a break at the Paris Air Show on June 18, 2025. (Daniel Woolfolk / Breaking Defense)
Military officials were among the attendees at the Paris Air Show in June 2025. (Hélène de Lacoste / Breaking Defense)
French defense and space firm Hemeria brought along a surveillance blimp to the Paris Air Show 2025. (Aaron Mehta / Breaking Defense)
Lockheed Martin subsidary Sikorsky's S-97 made its international debut at the Paris Air Show this year. (Michael Marrow/Breaking Defense)
The French and European Union flags fly high above the 2025 Paris Air Show. (Aaron Mehta/Breaking Defense)
Dassault showed off the many countries who have bought the Rafale at its booth. (Aaron Mehta/Breaking Defense)
It might be an air show, but the best way to get around the long runway? That's the commuter train. (Aaron Mehta/Breaking Defense)
Companies try different things to stand out at the Paris Air Show. In this case, Turkish Aerospace set up a booth serving traditional Turkish coffee, complete with a rug-adorned lounge. (Aaron Mehta/Breaking Defense)
Dassault showed off a new UCAV design as the feature of its outdoor pavilion. Meanwhile, the SCAF next-gen fighter model, which had been featured prominently before, was more to the side - befitting a show where the biggest news about SCAF was internal issues between Dassault and its Airbus partner. (Aaron Mehta/Breaking Defense)
The sun rises on a Eurofighter Typhoon early on day two of the 2025 Paris Air Show. (Aaron Mehta/Breaking Defense)
Elbit Systems booth at the Paris Air Show was blockaded off at the start of the conference. (Valerie Insinna/Breaking Deefnse)
Rafael’s booth at the Paris Air Show, obstructed by black walls, on June 16, 2025. (Valerie Insinna / Breaking Defense)
Dassault exhibits a mock up of the French, German, Spanish Next Generation Fighter at the Paris Air Show (Breaking Defense)
A French Dassault jet banks hard during an aerial show at the Paris Air Show on June 16, 2025. (Daniel Woolfolk / Breaking Denfense)
A visitor pops their head out of the top of an A400M transport aircraft at the Paris Air Show on June 16, 2025. (Aaron Mehta / Breaking Defense)
MBDA anticipates producing 1,000 low cost, one way effectors per month to meet an emerging French combat mass requirement (Breaking Defense)
An Embraer KC390 flies at Paris Air Show 2025. (Daniel Woolfolk / Breaking Defense)
Elbit Systems booth at the Paris Air Show was blockaded off at the start of the conference. (Valerie Insinna/Breaking Deefnse)
French defense firm Dassault shows off a sleek UAV at the Paris Air Show 2025.
IAI’s booth at the Paris Air Show, surrounded by black walls. (Valerie Insinna/Breaking Defense)