State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF

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Market cap $6.49B

State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF offers a slightly lower expense ratio of 0.35% compared to the 0.38% charged by iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF. iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF provides a higher dividend yield, but State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF has delivered stronger total returns over the past 12 months.

Ukraine launched a program last year to host companies that want to test their defense technology. Hundreds of companies have expressed interest, and the number is rising, a defense executive said.

Registered investment advisors did not pull back on exchange-traded funds in the first quarter of 2026. They kept adding them, according to AdvizorPro's Q1 2026 Quarterly RIA ETF Trends Report.

The Royal International Air Tattoo, one of ​the world's largest defence ‌shows, has been cancelled due to military operations linked ​to the Iran ​war, it said on Friday.

The Department of Defense is aggressively reallocating capital away from legacy manned platforms in favor of autonomous artificial intelligence-driven tactical networks and high-altitude hypersonic tracking systems. Multi-hundred-million-dollar contract awards for next-generation uncrewed assets, combined with immediate software and hardware integration between legacy defense contractors and disruptive venture-backed defense technology firms, signal the onset of a structural procurement supercycle.

The Global X Defense Tech ETF (NASDAQ:SHLD | SHLD Price Prediction) has done something unusual for a defense fund in a year when NATO is rewriting its spending playbook.

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest loads up on defense, air taxi stocks. Navy awards contracts to Lockheed, Northrop.

Experts say Japan will initially export arms in areas where it's already strong, such as air defense systems and naval platforms. Global military spending hit a record of $2.89 trillion in 2025, the 11th straight year of increase, according to SIPRI

Poland has signed its loan agreement under a European Union defence financing programme, securing 43.7 billion euros to strengthen ​its military as the bloc steps up efforts to ‌boost security amid heightened geopolitical risks.

Taiwan's opposition-controlled parliament on Friday ​approved $25 billion in extra ‌defence spending, around two-thirds of the much ​larger package the ​government had asked for ⁠to bolster the armed ​forces in the ​face of a rapidly modernising Chinese military.