The JV is looking to tap into growing demand from the European drone market valued in excess of $100 billion over the next decade and will include production out of Italy and Turkey, Roberto Cingolani, CEO at Leonardo, told media in Rome.
To keep our homeland safe, we need a new approach to missile defense.
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
Lockheed Martin now has its own air vehicle offering that could compete for a follow-on effort to the Enterprise Test Vehicle program.
A source with knowledge of the program told Breaking Defense that Lockheed submitted a bid for the next-gen fighter effort, but the proposal did not satisfy the Navy’s criteria, leaving Boeing and Northrop Grumman as the remaining competitors.
“As we look at the program moving forward, we’re also excited [about] the interest and the demand signal that we’re seeing, both domestically and from potential customers around the world,” Boeing official Azeem Khan told Breaking Defense.
"We are in an era of rearmament," said Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President. "And Europe is ready to massively boost its defence spending.”
The challenge for Western democratic institutions is not a lack of capability — it is a structural one.
“The primary objective for Strategic Strike is to launch from beyond enemy radar range, reducing the probability of detection, and increasing launch team survivability,” the company wrote in the announcement.
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The Pentagon has made real progress in reaching beyond its historical contractors to “maturing defense startups,” the Ronald Reagan Institute said, but much work is needed.
“I think the question is whether this is a temporary thing, or whether it becomes permanent,” one industry official told Breaking Defense.
The decision to pause deliveries was made on Feb. 27 by the service’s KC-46A program office “due to the identification of in the ‘outboard fixed-trailing-edge support structure’” of the two planes, an Air Force spokesperson said.
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The deal, which covers eight AH-64Ds, will serve as a capability bridge until the first of 96 newly-bought Apaches arrive starting in 2028.
Success of the coalition is dependent on “strong US backing,” according to British Prime Minister Kier Starmer, despite a clear gulf between the Trump administration and similar UK calls for Washington to act as a security guarantor overseeing a peace settlement.