The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has worked to provide allies with the air-to-air refuelling capabilities offered by its seven Airbus Defence & Space A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transports (MRTTs).

Last year, the United States Air Force pressed “pause” on its Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, citing costs and future capabilities of the sixth-generation manned aircraft that ...

So, too, can artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that the Air Force wants to place in their proposed Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter. Alas, it seems that the news out of Beijing ...

Australia has lodged an objection after a People's Liberation Army fighter deployed flares close to a RAAF jet. Separately, three PLA vessels were seen off the north-east coast of Australia ...

The RAAF’s (Royal Australian Air Force) MC-55A Peregrine EW/SIGINT (Electronic Warfare/Signal Intelligence) appears to have commenced its second test flight campaign, as shown by the newly ...

The NGAD program is nearing nine months of pause Powerful voices are calling for radical change The Air Force is considering a wide array of new approaches to air superiority But then the Air ...

“What’s important, though, is that the proximity of the J-16 was so close that there’s no way you could have been able to ensure that the flares did not hit the [RAAF] P-8,” Defence ...

The NGAD’s Basics The latest comes to us from a January 27, 2025, article in Breaking Defense by Valeria Insinna titled “EXCLUSIVE: New SASC chair sets sight on $200B defense boost, major ...

The Debrief: Hypersonic Bomber Emerges As Office’s Next Goal After NGAD is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is ...

The Air Force has expanded funding for a cutting-edge adaptive engine that would power the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter, while the future of NGAD itself remains under consideration.

The U.S. Air Force’s Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program is a work in progress. But once the futuristic fighter is introduced to service, it is expected to blow competitors out of the ...

F-35A Joint Strike Fighter aircraft A35-011 taxis into the hangars at RAAF Base Williamtown. (Image: SGT David Gibbs) Norwegian-Finnish defence firm Nammo has won a contract to supply armour ...