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

A new generation of tilt-rotor aircraft is in the pipeline, and this one could have the teeth to attract Australia’s defence strategists. Steve Hitchen reports on the potential for the Bell X-76 | Steve Hitchen

Exercise Pitch Black returns to the Top End from 20 July to 7 August, creating an opportunity for over 100 aircraft and personnel from 19 allied and partner nations to exercise together, and strengthen regional and global interoperability.

Boeing has welcomed two additional industry partners at the ILA Berlin Air Show to expand its German MQ-28 Ghost Bat industry team.

Boeing has unveiled extended combat capabilities of the MQ-28 Ghost Bat at the ILA Berlin Air Show in Germany.

AW Bell has officially graduated from the Lockheed Martin Australia Mentor Protégé Program.

Boeing has validated another advanced capability for the MQ-28 collaborative combat aircraft, stealth performance.  

The MQ-28 has completed three operational flight tests on the Point Mugu Sea Range at US Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, California, to validate autonomous operations and demonstrate rapid deployment and sustained operations.

The Royal Australian Air Force has taken delivery of its 14th and final P‑8A Poseidon aircraft.