HAL to Fill the F404 Engine Gap with Second-Hand Ones
The Indian Air Force's (IAF) Tejas Mk1A suffers from GE Aerospace's failure to supply F404 engines on time; therefore, it opts for second-hand engines.
F-18 Hornet News
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Engine and Transmission
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Swiss F/A-18 Jets Practice Using Highways
The Swiss Air Force has performed the “Alpha Uno” exercise, in which several F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets landed and took off from a highway.
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Bilateral Relations
Finland Does Not Intend to Send F/A-18C/D Hornet to Ukraine
Finnish Defence Minister Antti Samuli Kaikkonen said his country currently has no intention of sending combat aircraft to Ukraine.
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Country
Boeing to Upgrade F-18 and EA-18Gs for $2.1 Billion
Pentagon announced that Boeing was awarded two contracts worth over $2.1 billion to upgrade the F-18 Hornet and EA-18G combat aircraft.
Air
Bilateral Relations
Kuwait Denies Selling Hornets to Malaysia
Kuwait's Army General Staff Headquarters has denied media reports that the country will sell F/A-18 C/D Hornet fighter planes to Malaysia.
Global Defence Trend Brief
- 09:00 NATO pushes allies to fill US air and naval capability gaps - Washington is pressing European allies and Canada to provide more manned and unmanned aircraft plus...
- 09:00 AI-driven drone swarms rise as a new NATO planning priority - NATO officials are warning that AI-enabled drone swarms could reshape warfare within five years, pus...
- 09:00 Counter-drone demand expands beyond battlefields into critical infrastructure - Growing drone incursions around airports, ports, oil facilities and data centres are accelerating de...
- 09:00 Europe’s loyal wingman race becomes a core airpower trend - Collaborative combat aircraft took centre stage at Berlin Airshow 2026 as European companies and air...
- 09:00 Ukraine’s drone combat know-how is becoming an export asset in Asia - Ukrainian drone firms are marketing battlefield-proven systems and swarm concepts in Japan, Taiwan a...
- 09:00 NATO accelerates live testing of counter-drone technologies - Alliance members and industry partners are expanding field trials of drone detection and interceptio...
- 09:00 Hypersonic threats keep driving demand for persistent tracking networks - The spread of hypersonic weapons continues to push Western defence planners toward integrated radar...
- 09:00 Military space resilience shifts toward larger distributed constellations - Armed forces are increasingly favouring proliferated satellite constellations over a small number of...
- 09:00 Autonomous maritime systems gain importance in surveillance and strike planning - Navies are broadening interest in autonomous surface and underwater systems for persistent ISR, infr...
- 09:00 Industrial surge capacity is becoming a decisive defence metric - Across missiles, drones and air defence, governments are placing more weight on production scalabili...
