Saab has finished building a new site in West Lafayette, Indiana, that will accommodate aft fuselage production work for the T-7A Red Hawk jet trainer the company is developing with Boeing. The Boeing-Saab team designed the Red Hawk trainer platform for the U.S. Air Force and won a $9.2 billion contract in September 2018 to manufacture the aircraft as replacement to the service’s fleet of T-38 trainers.

The U.S. Navy and Boeing have tested the aerodynamics of an MQ-25 unmanned aircraft system that features a Cobham-built aerial refueling store mounted on the vehicle wing structure.

Boeing installed an aerial refueling store into an MQ-25 unmanned tanker test asset in preparation for flight testing later this year, Seapower Magazine reported Thursday.

Saab has begun assembly production efforts for the aft fuselage component of a trainer aircraft system to be used by the U.S. Air Force.

A Boeing-Saab team is achieving milestones with the T-7A Red Hawk trainer program as it works to deliver the first aircraft to the U.S. Air Force in 2023, National Defense reported Friday.

Boeing and Saab are reaching developmental milestones on schedule for the T-7A Red Hawk trainer towards the aircraft’s planned production start in late 2020, Aviation Today reported Friday.

Boeing has tested the T-X trainer, officially named the T-7A Red Hawk, to demonstrate the aircraft’s high speed at low altitude.

Elbit Systems’ U.S. arm has agreed to provide certain technologies for a Boeing-made pilot training aircraft.

Saab is slated to open a manufacturing facility in West Lafayette, Ind., to support the production of T-X trainer aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, Defense News reported Friday.

The U.S. Air Force received an additional three KC-46A Pegasus refueling tankers from Boeing last week following a delivery pause due to foreign objects discovered on the aircraft, Air Force magazine reported Monday.

Boeing has awarded Aitech Defense Systems a contract to provide mission interface systems for the U.S. Navy's MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueling program.

Boeing’s prototyping arm plans to begin manufacturing a flat satellite antenna technology in 2020 to facilitate broadband communications for military aircraft, SpaceNews reported Wednesday.