With Leonardo’s North American arm replacing Raytheon as prime, the T-100 bid for the U.S. Air Force’s coveted $16 billion T-X contract will come in at a lower price, according to a top company executive.

The French government is making a last-ditch effort to get Malaysia to order Dassault Rafales ahead of a planned visit by its president to the Southeast Asian nation.

The proposed investment in the Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter signals the administration’s seriousness about moving quickly to modernize the service’s tactical fighter fleet beyond the stealthy F-35.

Textron Aviation has officially decided that it cannot compete for the U.S. Air Force’s $16 billion next-generation training aircraft program with the company’s Scorpion.

The Joint Strike Fighter project should be able to beat its 2019 price target for Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning aircraft, says program chief Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan.

The service will abandon plans to immediately pursue a more robust, one-for-one Warthog replacement, as the venerable attack plane will continue flying well into the 2020s.

Preliminary design of India’s proposed Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft will begin in March.

The head of the F-35 Joint Program Office says the outer wings of 32 carrier-based C-models need to be replaced to carry the Raytheon AIM-9X Sidewinder, the aircraft’s primary dogfighting weapon.