U.S. Air Force (USAF)

The first U.S. surveillance fleet with a craft beer as a namesake inherits a counter-drug spy mission flown by a four-decade-old string of modified turboprops.

Thermoplastic fuselage; Tailless flight control; Robotic sheet-metal forming; Hydrogen aviation ecosystem.

A U.S. Air Force F-22 shot down an unidentified flying object off the coast of Alaska on Feb. 10.

Several key U.S. Air Force aircraft saw their mission-capable rates drop in fiscal 2022 compared to the prior year.

Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss a week of high drama, including the shootdown of China's balloon and the future of high-altitude surveillance.

Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology have flown a tailless uncrewed aircraft system using active flow control for maneuvering.

Key lawmakers are already calling for improvements to air surveillance to better detect high-altitude intrusions over the U.S.

A bizarre, five-day saga revealed a new Chinese spy program, possible advances in light-than-air technology and new high-altitude skills for the F-22.

Reliable Robotics will study the use of its automated flight and navigation technology in large, multi-engine U.S. Air Force jets.

Pentagon and White House officials are sharing more details about the balloon as an effort continues to collect debris.

Hydrosat has won a contract from AFWERX to adapt its surface temperature data analytics software for military missions.

A zigzagging Chinese high-altitude balloon roving across the U.S. recalls a history of lighter-than-air spy missions and highlights a new trend.

U.S. troops in the Middle East turn to new tech and adapted missile defenses to help protect bases.

A long-awaited international air show Down Under will highlight the impact of a strategic pivot by Australia since 2019.

The funding will be used to build a full-scale prototype of Electra’s hybrid-electric short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

The last undelivered 747-8Is are being converted into presidential aircraft for the USAF under a nearly $7 billion development project, including cost overruns.

Daylighting mental health issues is critically important to aviation safety.

A busy two weeks for the F-35 reveals new details about the program’s strengths and weaknesses as the program enters a critical new phase.

Despite as many as 640 aircraft losses for the U.S., Japan and Taiwan in one scenario, a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is more likely than not to fail, CSIS says.

Sharing low-cost emitters with Ukrainian forces is one innovative way to help complicate the air picture for Russia.

The B-21 Raider was displayed at the company’s secretive Plant 42 complex about 34 years after a similar ceremony for its predecessor the B-2.

How do the B-21 and B-2 bomber differ? Here are four ways.

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says he is encouraged by recent test successes for Lockheed Martin’s Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, despite having previously expressed concern about the program.

Propulsion-related test and development contracts have been awarded to engine-makers General Electric and Pratt & Whitney as well as Boeing, Lockheed Martin and

The U.S. Defense Department has proposed launching a large-scale prototyping effort for a blended wing body aircraft that will be evaluated as a future tanker, airlifter and bomber.