Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, Brian covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times. Over a decade as a defense journalist, he has reported from dozens of bases at home and abroad, including austere airstrips in Afghanistan, the cockpit of a B-52 over the South Pacific and the boom operator station of a KC-46. Before the military beat, Brian covered the Washington state legislature for the Associated Press.
The U.S. Navy wants to steam ahead on bringing more uncrewed aircraft into its air wings, but the service chief favors a different approach than had previously been laid out.
The U.S. Navy is developing and currently flight testing a new long-range air-to-air missile that will far exceed the capabilities of the AIM-120 and likely the recently disclosed AIM-174B as well.
