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Defense ministry fighter developers have completed studies of configurations and feasibility for India’s proposed stealth aircraft. They are awaiting a go-ahead for full-scale development.

Could Russia, UAE defense deal pave way for Emirati access to F-35?

The Advanced Hawk has an engine more powerful than the one in India’s current trainer fleet. BAE and HAL also offer synthetic features in inflight training and a refueling probe.

When it comes to cutting regulations, the U.S. has seen this movie before, and we know how it ends—or at least how it has every time before.

A European program, comparable to NextGen in the U.S., wants to maximize ATM efficiency to take fuller advantage of upgraded aircraft.

Gen. Goldfein says the lack of a fiscal 2017 budget could do more damage than any enemy.

UPS and delivery-vehicle maker Workhorse demonstrate how truck-launched unmanned aircraft could make package delivery in rural areas more efficient and sustainable.

Lockheed Martin took reporters on the ride of their lives in the T-50A, showing off the capabilities of the production-ready aircraft just weeks before proposals are due to the Air Force.

A new financing round brings strategic investors, including Airbus and Microsoft, on board a startup that wants to enable safe and efficient large-scale operations for small UAS in low-altitude airspace.

Colorado will spend $6 million for a remote system it hopes will bring affordable control tower services at a handful of key mountain airports.

Corporate aircraft operators clamor to join Aviation Safety Action Program of Air Charter Safety Foundation ASAP.

Study shows dramatic rise in U.S. weapons exports, MBDA seeks new markets for Sea Venom missile, Russia and India agree to more cooperation on T-50 fighter.

Developers in India have designed the IMRH to outperform the Mi-17 on a little less weight, partly by using an airframe made mainly of carbon-fiber composite.

The change in administration means change in the spaceflight community. There will be risks.

For the first time since last summer, SpaceX successfully got cargo to the International Space Station, including many new research projects.

Limitations on the F-35’s strike capability may prompt fresh thinking in the military about how it uses and upgrades existing aircraft.

New air traffic navigation equipment and procedures that could help handle more traffic are getting a tryout at Charles de Gaulle Airport.

A majority of the spacecraft, 88, are cubesats bolstering San Francisco-based Planet’s growing Earth-observation constellation.

Increasing from three to four the number of astronauts assigned to the station's U.S. segment could double research activities, NASA believes.

Eirik Lie sat down with Aviation Week to discuss the F-35, JSM, Nasams and building Norway's Kongsberg into an international brand.

The close-air-support jet of the future, the F-35, will not be capable of hitting moving targets in Block 3F without new bombs.

Practically everyone involved thinks air traffic issues will dominate FAA reauthorization, but few can say what will happen.

In a giant game of aviation chess, the pieces that will determine the battle for the middle-of-the-market sector next decade are already in play.

Airbus helps yacht race; flying cars on sale; Dubai plans air taxis; Singapore counters drones; Insitu flies Redkite WAMI.