The Speed Racer project harkens back to the Skunk Works' origins as the company that built the first XP-80 in 143 days and the first U-2 in less than nine months.

Leonardo is proposing a military variant of its AW139 twin-engine medium helicopter for Poland as a replacement for the country’s aging W-3 Sokol and Mi-2 rotorcraft.

Verizon Skyward and French manufacturer Parrot have partnered to offer a drone training and operations management package based on Parrot’s Anafi USA quadcopter, the companies announced Sept. 15.

Britain’s Royal Air Force will adopt new technologies to identify and prosecute targets in more locations simultaneously than what is possible today, the air arm’s most senior officer says. 

A January missile firing test offered a glimpse of the MC-130’s potential in a new role as an Arsenal Plane.

The head of the U.S. Air Force’s mobility fleet needs more data from Boeing on the KC-46 Remote Vision System (RVS) upgrade plan to determine if an interim fix is worth taking the maintenance downtime.

A full-scale flight demonstrator for the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance program has already flown in secret and “broken records” in the process, a senior official said on Sept. 15. 

Although the U.S. Air Force proposed to terminate the General Atomics MQ-9 production line in the last budget cycle, the service may opt to employ the Reaper in a new way: as an attritable aircraft that the military can afford to lose in a war with China or Russia.