US aircraft manufacturer Textron has revealed the aircraft it intends to compete to be the US Navy’s (USN’s) new trainer jet.

The fighter is a variant on Leonardo’s M-346 jet trainer, which has been sold to customers including Italy, Israel, Poland, Singapore and Qatar, racking up 100,000 flight hours.

Airbus and Leonardo announce new trainer teaming arrangement at #ParisAirShow to be based on the latter’s M-346 aircraft.

On the 13th July, the operational version of the M-346 Fighter Attack, equipped with an optimized variant of Leonardo’s Grifo radar, successfully completed its maiden flight. The M-346FA is the new ...

Leonardo has to date sold a total of 126 M-346 trainers and M-346FA aircraft, including the 24-jet sale to Nigeria, with customers for the trainer version including Italy, Israel, Poland ...

The M-346FA light attack aircraft successfully completed its initial flight on 13 July equipped with a bespoke Grifo-M-346 multimode radar, Leonardo announced on 23 July. ‘The M-346FA offers all of ...

The first two Leonardo M-346B Master Advanced Jet Trainers of the Hellenic Air Force have been delivered to Kalamata Air Base on May 11, 2023. The two aircraft, with the tail numbers ...

Leonardo has delivered the first two M-346 trainer aircraft, part of the International Flight Training School (IFTS) project, at the Italian Air Force’s (ITAF) 61st Wing base in Galatina, Lecce, the ...

Leonardo has completed the first flight of its M-346 advanced jet trainer fitted with the company’s Grifo radar. The first production-standard M-346 Fighter Attack (FA) took to the air on July ...

The M-346 by Aermacchi, part of Leonardo-Finmeccanica, is a jet trainer and light attack aircraft with a maximum speed of 572 knots and a range of 1,070 nautical miles.

This included a brief reference to an agreement between the nation’s defence minister, Zakir Hasanov, and Leonardo chief executive Alessandro Profumo related to the M-346.

Correction: Leonardo has corrected statements made about M-346 customers during a tour of one of its facilities by Defense News, and this story has been updated to reflect that. BEIRUT — After ...