Aviation Week & Space Technology

With a limited budget and a strategic need for airpower, the U.S. Air Force is weighing its future fighter fleet options. Our editors discuss the idea of retiring National Guard F-15s in favor of upgrading F-16s.

India prepares to export its light combat aircraft and an Indian-manufactured Advanced Hawk, U.S. aims to keep airborne brigade in Alaska, BAE and DRS team up on missile warning system, and the Navy provides more money to MQ-25 aspirants ahead of a request for proposals.

Precision-guided smart bombs have irreversibly changed modern warfare. But what weapons will define the future?

China Southern plans for its Xinjiang passenger numbers to reach 18 million a year by the end of 2020 from the current 10 million.

What drives up defense spending may not be as obvious as what seems like a higher level of threat.

Silicon Valley garage startup can update its imagery of every spot on Earth, every day.

The annual European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition overflows with new and notable moments. This year it will be presided over the EBAA’s new CEO.

After 18 years, three companies still have the Indian Army’s $5.8 billion contract for short-range air-defense systems in their sights.

Using ground stations and its SkyTerra 1 satellite, Ligado Networks believes it has the secret sauce for UAS beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations.

Germany gauges the critical size at €100 million annually, but France lacks that scale with 170 of GIFAS’s members at a combined turnover of a mere €3 billion.

Eurofighter continues hunt for orders, as production reaches 500-aircraft milestone.

Ideas fly at Airbus; Bell’s anti-torque fan; Europe researches detect-and-avoid; Canada advances drone deliveries; Verizon tests flying cell site.

Rupert Hogg will be responsible for implementing current CEO Ivan Chu’s transformation plan.

Trump pledges to appoint two reform-minded bank board members.

The Raytheon-made Tomahawk is still the Pentagon’s weapon of choice, but the U.S. Navy has long wanted to stop building new ones in favor of developing a next-generation cruise missile.

Consultancy Asian Sky Group expects Greater China business-jet fleet growth will bottom out this year, returning to modest growth in 2018.

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

Launched in Sao Paulo, the Voom on-demand helicopter booking service has emerged from A³, Airbus’s Silicon Valley outpost charged with incubating and demonstrating disruptive ideas

Saudi efforts to drive out shale producers by boosting production lead to new techniques that keep prices down. But cheap fuel may hurt fleet renewals.

Timeline shows key dates in Tomahawk cruise missile's history, including program milestones and uses in battle.

United Flight 3411 debacle causes lasting damage to the airline.

Hypersonic developments in China and Russia suggest the U.S. could easily lose its lead.

​The Space Foundation has named U.S. Navy Rear Adm. (ret.) Thomas E. Zelibor as CEO. New executives at Safran Nacelle, BMI, Engility Holdings Inc., Club One Air, Passur Aerospace Inc., U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee., EnCore Group.

Flight-test engineers and test pilots must learn to evaluate the characteristics of a digital control system in an airborne environment complete with G forces.

GE CEO Jeff Immelt's comments show leading aerospace companies are paying more than just lip service to the idea of electric propulsion.