Aviation Week & Space Technology

Aircraft carrier arrangement becomes another casualty of Ukraine incursion.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Climate changes are making the northern reaches of greater economic and strategic interest, but the U.S. military has a long way to catch up to the Russians and other nations.
Defense

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Weakening ruble could impede Russia’s air force bomber and fighter development programs.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Finland wants a multirole fighter and ground-based air defenses to replace its F/A-18 Hornet fleet.
Defense

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia bolsters Arctic military units to reinforce claims on the region’s natural resources and shipping lanes
Defense

By Joe Anselmo, Graham Warwick
Berkshire Hathaway’s bid to acquire Precision Castparts and Google’s restructuring are among the developments discussed by Aviation Week's editors.
Air Transport

By Mark Carreau
NASA has chosen Lunar IceCube for inclusion of secondary smallsat payloads on the the multibillion-dollar SLS-Orion test flight, which could provide potential encouragement for researchers to push deeper into space using CubeSat technologies.
Space

At perihelion, the ESA mission will be able to glimpse the effect of that approach on the comet’s surface.
Space

By Graham Warwick
NASA funds further study of a propulsion system that could dramatically reduce the time required to explore the outer reaches of the Solar System and beyond.
Aerospace

Marines eye improvements in maintenance and multiship functionality for operational F-35Bs, but other nations wait for more robust versions.
Defense

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Severely tested by adverse economics, airlines in Russia are adapting by going leaner.
Air Transport

By Kevin Michaels
A higher cost of capital combined with sustained low fuel prices would make for a very interesting ride in the years ahead.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
The Australian carrier sees huge growth potential in Asian markets but is having trouble getting its expansion plans approved by governments.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Online giants are on a mission to enable widespread use of small unmanned aircraft, with private sector organizations—rather than the FAA—managing airspace operations.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Autonomy, beyond-line-of-sight, multiple vehicles per pilot—Olaeris’s plans to deploy emergency-response UAS in cities across the U.S. goes well beyond what the FAA will allow, for now.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
U.S. and Japanese researchers pursue different paths to introducing fuel cells into commercial aircraft propulsion systems.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Electric-aircraft challenge winner; NASA’s extreme-access flyers; blast-containing baggage container; TsAGI quiet supersonic idea.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio, Tony Osborne
A look at the obstacles that lie ahead for Lockheed Martin’s mammoth F-35 program, how its limitations with dogfighting is leading other militaries to tout maneuverability and how the U.K. is equipping other fighters with weapons that the F-35 can’t yet use. Amy Butler and Tony Osborne also spend a little time discussing this summer’s tanker blues.
Defense

Some Australian politicians say they know the best answer for the country’s submarine needs. They don’t.
Defense

By William Garvey
Surf Air founder launches new unlimited flights service between low-volume city pairings, for members who want to bypass commercial flying hassles.
Business Aviation

​ Wesley D. Kremer (see photo) has been named president of Integrated Defense Systems at Raytheon Co., headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. He succeeds Daniel J. Crowley, who is resigning and will leave on Dec. 31, after completing a special assignment. Kremer was most recently vice president-Air and Missile Defense Systems for Raytheon Missile Systems. Prior to joining Raytheon in 2003, he had been a U.S. Air Force weapon systems officer for 11 years, flying F-111s and F-15Es.

By Graham Warwick
Industry needs to work together to advance energy storage, conversion and transmission technology if electric-powered airliners are to become a reality, says Airbus CTO.
Aerospace

U.S. airlines are divided as the government weighs whether to start open skies consultations with Qatar and UAE
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Lufthansa is trying to persuade the German government that protectionist policies make sense.
Air Transport

A Lockheed Martin aircraft could be carrying a high-power laser in 2020; it’s not the F-35.
Defense