The U.S. plan for TacAir has many strands, providing multiple opportunities for angst—or catastrophe.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Northrop Grumman is starting tests on the next stealth bomber, while industry is floating multiple concepts for collaborative combat aircraft.

The Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton uncrewed aircraft system has been cleared for initial operating capability by the U.S. Navy.

The request for information (RFI) was published on Sept. 15 by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center.

South Africa’s Paramount Group is seeing strong demand for the upgrade of older Russian-built helicopters.

Leonardo Helicopters has revealed a model of what it calls a “mature concept” of the 2-3-metric-ton rotary-wing UAS demonstrator, which the OEM hopes to fly in 2025.

Beta has been working with AFWerx and Agility Prime for more than three years.