The Spanish Air Force (Ejército del Aire y del Espacio) has deployed six Eurofighter Tifón (Typhoon) multi-role combat jets and an Airbus A400M tactical transport.

Billed as Australia’s premier air defence training exercise, the latest iteration of the Pitch Black series began in the vast and relatively empty skies of the Northern Territory last week.

Following on from their inaugural participation in Pitch Black 2024, the Philippine Air Force has returned for the 2026 event.

Japan has set an ambitious three-month schedule for procuring new interceptor drones, the nation’s Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi announced in a press conference in early July | Corey Lee Bell

Boresight has signed a lease for a new 812 square metre manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama; approximately 15 times the size of its current US site.

The Royal Australian Air Force’s premier air combat exercise, Exercise Pitch Black, will take to the skies over northern Australia from 20 July to 7 August.

Bombardier Defense Global 6500 aircraft will support South Korea’s Electronic Warfare program. The Global 6500 aircraft was already selected to be the platform for the country’s Airborne Early Warning & Control program.

Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat has participated in Exercise Valiant Shield alongside various joint and coalition aircraft becoming the first and only collaborative combat aircraft deployed to a multinational, joint operational exercise, Boeing claims.

Australian, United States and Japanese personnel have taken to the northern Australian skies in the Australian Defence Force’s newest trilateral exercise.

Japan’s parliament on 26 June passed a law for renaming the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, to the Air and Space Defense Force | Corey Lee Bell

Boeing has surpassed $1 billion in export contracts awarded to Australian suppliers since joining the Australian Government’s Global Supply Chain Program in 2007. 

Lockheed Martin Australia has marked the commencement of a new $85.9 million Air Power Precinct in the Hunter region, together with Minister for Defence Industry, Pat Conroy, at a sod-turning ceremony in Williamtown.

The US Department of State has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Singapore to purchase AGM-114R Hellfire missiles.

The US Department of State has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Australia for the purchase of F/A-18F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft training and related equipment.

Airbus has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Kawasaki Heavy Industries to analyse opportunities to work on a Japanese anti-submarine warfare variant of the U950 Eurodrone.

On 18 June, the RAAF held a farewell event for the last Australian Defence Force flight of a CT-4A training aircraft prior to it being returned to the History and Heritage Branch | Grant McHerron