The U.S. Air Force in December 2025 awarded Northrop Grumman contracts for the next production lot of B-21 Raider bombers, along with advanced procurement for a future lot, as the two sides continue ...

No one is yet calling it a wartime production schedule, but the potential of a conflict with China is driving the federal government to increase its missile stockpile. Defense contractors are being ...

Northrop Grumman and the US Air Force (USAF) plan to increase production rates on the USA’s next-generation stealth bomber, at a cost to the company’s short-term profits. During a 22 April call with ...

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Airbus ended 2025 strong, with the final delivery numbers close to its original goal at 820 for the year. Although issues with suppliers forced the European aerospace giant to revise its target down ...

Boeing Co. has accelerated 737 Max deliveries to Ryanair Holdings Plc, the Irish airline’s chief executive officer said, and has expressed confidence that it will be able to raise production rates on ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Europe's Airbus lowered a production target for its smallest jetliner on Wednesday, taking the gloss off forecast-beating quarterly profits at the rest of its commercial jetliner ...

In order to assess the opportunity, we first look at what production rate would be fundamentally supported by the backlog. Boeing currently has a backlog for the 737 MAX of more than 4,700 airplanes.

It will take years to boost production rates to needed levels for attack submarines, such as Arkansas , shown here being built at Newport News Shipbuilding. (Janes/Michael Fabey) There is no near-term ...

The aerospace giant has claimed that it can produce up to 2,000 PAC-3 ground-to-air missiles per year—vastly exceeding the current production rate of around 600 per year. Lockheed Martin and the ...

For the Boeing 737 MAX models, the backlog has climbed from more than 4,700 airplanes to more than 4,850 airplanes. In my calculations, I use a backlog equivalent of 5 to 7 years. This currently ...