U.S. Air Force (USAF)

The U.S. Air Force is focusing heavily on maritime strike as it looks toward the Pacific with a need for munitions.

The U.S. Space Force is investing in new offensive capabilities in space.

Next-Generation Air Dominance to be approximately a one-for-one F-22 replacement, bolstered by collaborative combat aircraft.

Officials call for clean-sheet designs, saying commercial-derivative refuelers are not survivable.

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

The Air National Guard has increased the numbers of F-15s it flies, and keeping them in the air has taken creative fleet management and intensive maintenance.

The U.S. Air Force recently deployed F-22s to a tiny, bare base in the Pacific for the first in a significant demonstration of its new agile operating concept.

The U.S. Air Force is pressing ahead on its desire for an Advanced Tactical Trainer.

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall spoke to Aerospace DAILY March 8 in an interview at the Air Force Association Air Warfare Symposium.

DARPA selected GA-ASI in March 2022 to advance to the next phase of the project in March 2022, but a year passed before the manufacturer announced the news.

A plan emerges to establish weapons-making capacity in Australia, starting with perhaps a new production order for Ukraine.

The image, which the U.S. Air Force published on March 7, reveals for the first time that the inlets are shaped like sideways teardrops.

Russian fighter jets have increased their operations near and over U.S. locations in Syria in recent weeks, a U.S. Air Force lieutenant general says.

A new generation of design tools has allowed small companies to compete against industry heavyweights in developing high-performance aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force has laid out an operating plan for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, the uncrewed loyal wingman systems it plans to fly alongside fighters.

The U.S. Air Force has approved production of the Boeing MH-139 Grey Wolf helicopter, with an award of $285 million for the first batch of aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force wants to formally kill its KC-Y “Bridge Tanker” program as it accelerates its future Next Generation Air Refueling System.

The U.S. Air Force will buy three new General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft.

Ukraine has about 60 aircraft remaining, but those have been made “worthless” in the face of highly effective Russian air defenses.

The contractual milestone ends a four-year negotiating process with the F-35 Joint Program Office as the U.S. Air Force evaluates a replacement engine.

NATO has received information on Boeing’s E-7, Northrop Grumman’s E-2 Hawkeye and Saab’s GlobalEye as it considers an interim AEW platform.

L3Harris is converting the first two AirTractor AT-802s to the special operations OA-1K armed overwatch aircraft ahead of planned government verification tests.

DARPA will start a new program aimed at high-speed, runway-independent aircraft.

Boeing has selected four Australian suppliers for the AH-64E Apache helicopter and increased the amount of local content on the MQ-28 Ghost Bat UAS.

A decades-old concept for a ubiquitous battlefield network concept is starting to become reality.