Defense Supply Chain Analysis
Jul 11, 2025
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Jul 11, 2025
Turkey’s ASFAT is trying to turn domestic military factories into export powerhouses for aerospace maintenance and parts.
Jul 10, 2025
Rare earths are essential for a wide variety of defense systems to function but the U.S. is largely reliant on China for these strategic metals. Listen in as experts discuss what can be done.
Jul 07, 2025
A Supplier New Deal built on fairness, collaboration and mutual investment could reset OEM-supplier relationships and enable higher production rates.
Jul 04, 2025
A flat fiscal 2026 budget request combined with a $113 billion reconciliation offers a game-changing opportunity for nontraditional defense contractors.
Aug 20, 2025
Israel’s Defense Ministry says it is buying drones from local provider Xtend to equip ground forces.
Aug 19, 2025
Rocket propulsion startup X-Bow Systems will develop a second production source for the motor that powers the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System.
Aug 19, 2025
Raytheon's Stinger shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile is set to be produced in Europe through a deal agreed with Germany's Diehl Defense.
Aug 19, 2025
China has flown its first full-scale crewed tiltrotor aircraft, developed by state-owned company AVIC.
Aug 18, 2025
South Korea's LIG Nex1 is self-funding development of two modular missile types aimed at competing with MBDA’s Spear and Kongsberg’s Joint Strike Missile.
Aug 15, 2025
Drone manufacturer Red Cat Holdings expects it would significantly benefit from a possible U.S. ban on the use of UAVs made by China’s DJI, the company said.
Aug 14, 2025
Ukrainian front-line troops received the first 1,000 first person view drones less than two weeks after a newly launched online weapons marketplace started processing orders.
Aug 14, 2025
Poland accounted for more than half of the $11.9 million in export sales in Taiwan’s drone sector recorded in the first half of the year.