Aaron Mehta

2 days ago | breakingdefense.com | Valerie Insinna |Aaron Mehta

PARIS — European nations are in the process of pouring billions of dollars into their defense budgets, individually and collectively, quickly becoming one of the hottest growth markets for defense on the planet.

3 days ago | dealbreaker.com | Aaron Mehta

The chief of Honeywell Aerospace told Breaking Defense the firm is looking to increase its mergers and acquisitions activity in its near-future, a business strategy separately echoed by the head of Leonardo DRS days later. “Our M&A pipeline is as robust it has ever been in my years of Honeywell Aerospace,” company CEO Jim Currier said in an interview on the sidelines of this year’s Paris Air Show. “I do anticipate we will continue to be acquisitive,” he said.

1 week ago | breakingdefense.com | Aaron Mehta

PARIS AIR SHOW — The chief of Honeywell Aerospace told Breaking Defense the firm is looking to increase its mergers and acquisitions activity in its near-future, a business strategy separately echoed by the head of Leonardo DRS days later. “Our M&A pipeline is as robust it has ever been in my years of Honeywell Aerospace,” company CEO Jim Currier said in an interview on the sidelines of this year’s Paris Air Show. “I do anticipate we will continue to be acquisitive,” he said.

1 week ago | breakingdefense.com | Aaron Mehta

Attendees take a peak inside the Lockheed Martin Raider helicopter at the Paris Air Show on June 17, 2025. (Hélène de Lacoste / Breaking Defense)PARIS AIR SHOW — Thursday marked the unofficial closure of the Paris Air Show. While technically the show continues all week, Thursday is the last day where exhibitors are there in any show of force. After that, it’s the public days, and industry largely bugs out to avoid the chaos.

1 week ago | breakingdefense.com | Aaron Mehta

PARIS AIR SHOW — Late Tuesday at the Paris Air Show, defense tech startup ShieldAI released a video teasing some sort of “next-gen aircraft.” And while the company’s new CEO, Gary Steele, wasn’t willing to go too much into what that might look like, he did tell Breaking Defense that it is a wholly new drone, and not just an upgrade to the company’s existing V-Bat system. “September’s our official launch time frame,” Steele said during a Wednesday interview at Le Bourget.