Two prototype vehicles powered by aerospike rocket engines are on track to flight test the propulsion technology for the first time in 2023 under a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) project targeting rapid launch capability using modular engine architectures.

Swiss aircraft manufacturer Pilatus claimed its highest-ever revenues in 2021 but the company warns that it is now facing supply chain bottlenecks. 

Annual flying hours per aircraft dropped for the U.S. Air Force’s F-35A fleet in 2021, erasing five years of steady progress, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Draken will provide adversary air using its Aero Vodochody L-159 Advanced Light Combat Aircraft operated from its base at Teesside airport from July. 

Lift Aircraft has been awarded a Phase 3 contract by the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program to continue experimentation and flight tests of its single-seat HEXA electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force has ordered long-lead parts to start the production phase of the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider program. The $108 million contract…

Airbus says it will draw on a multidisciplined set of technologies in its proposal for NATO’s Alliance Future Surveillance and Control system, which will replace the Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning platform in the mid-2030s.

India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has struck an agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries to convert passenger aircraft into tankers under the Israeli company’s multi-mission tanker transport (MMTT) program.