Defense News Aerospace 2025
PGZ and Anduril to co-develop and build Barracuda-500M cruise missile in Poland
On 27 October 2025, Poland’s state-owned PGZ announced a strategic cooperation with Anduril Industries to co-develop and localize the Barracuda-500...
US RQ-4B Global Hawk Spy Drone resumes Black Sea surveillance tracking Russian missiles
A renewed Global Hawk patrol over international waters of the Black Sea marked a fresh round of U.S. long-endurance surveillance, according to flig...
Türkiye’s Akinci Drone Shifts to Electronic Warfare Role With Aselsan’s New Pod Suite
On 27 October 2025, Türkiye’s unmanned airpower took a substantive step toward electronic-warfare led air campaigns as announced by Baykar and furt...
US Lockheed Martin Quietly Builds Sixth-Gen Prototypes as F-35 and F-22 Jets Enter New Phase
Lockheed Martin is developing company-funded prototypes that weave sixth-generation technologies into the F-35 and F-22 fighter lines, marking a se...
Romania Activates New F-16 Squadron to Reinforce NATO’s Eastern Air Defense Posture
On 27th October 2025, Romania’s Ministry of National Defence announced that a new F-16 Fighting Falcon unit is operational for NATO air policing, a...
STM ALPAGU Drone Enters Türkiye’s Arsenal Advancing Scalable and Precise Strike Capabilities
On 24 October 2025, STM announced that its fixed-wing loitering munition ALPAGU has completed acceptance tests and formally entered Türkiye’s inven...
South Korea’s KF-21 Jet to Gain European Strike Edge With MBDA’s SPEAR Missile Integration
MBDA announced on October 22, 2025, that the company and Korea Aerospace Industries signed a memorandum of understanding at Seoul ADEX to integrate...
Textron Pitches AT-6 Wolverine as Modular Aircraft for Counter-UAV and Close Air Support Roles
On 22 October 2025, on company channels, Textron outlined a proposal positioning the AT-6 Wolverine as a multi-mission answer to proliferating dron...
UK and Ukraine Agree to Jointly Produce Thousands of Octopus-100 Interceptor Combat Drones
On 25 October 2025, Ukraine and the United Kingdom confirmed a new phase of cooperation with an agreement between the two countries’ ministries of ...
Russia Declares 9M730 Burevestnik Nuclear Cruise Missile Test Marks Global-Reach Capability
On Sunday, 26 October 2025, the Kremlin said Russia has carried out a long-duration flight test of the 9M730 Burevestnik, a nuclear-powered, nuclea...
Pentagon Backs Castelion Blackbeard Hypersonic Missile with U.S. Army Integration Awards
Castelion announced on October 24, 2025, the award of multiple U.S. Army and U.S. Navy contracts to integrate its Blackbeard hypersonic strike weap...
US Tiltrotor Osprey Drills in Sweden and Caribbean Signal Rapid Infiltration Toward Venezuela
On 25 October 2025, fresh NATO imagery and statements placed U.S. and Swedish troops executing infiltration drills in Sweden during Exercise Adaman...