U.S. Air Force (USAF)

By Garrett Reim
Startup HyperKelp says it is demonstrating air-droppable buoys for the U.S. Navy that could detect the acoustic signature of boost-glide hypersonic vehicles.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Air Force has demonstrated a nonstop long-range flight of its Airbus A400M airlifter, from the UK to Guam.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Dubbed the Collaborative Low-Altitude UAS Integration Effort (CLUE), the system was developed by AFRL’s Information Directorate.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Brian Everstine
House appropriators are not impressed with how major Pentagon hypersonic programs have performed in recent tests.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Ben Goldstein
Joby Aviation has announced a $100 million equity sale to existing investor SK Telecom.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Based in Austin, Texas, LIFT is developing a single-seat unwinged multicopter called the Hexa.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The first EMD aircraft for the service took off from Boeing’s St. Louis facility.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Graham Warwick
The aircraft has received FAA special airworthiness certification for flight testing.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Eric Allison is Joby Aviation's chief commercial officer.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
More U.S. Air Force installations are getting new aircraft as Congress appears poised to allow the service to continue retiring the aging A-10 fleet.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is buying at least 140 of the F-15EX variants, most of which are planned to go to the Air National Guard.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble, Brian Everstine
Raytheon’s lobbyist accused a Lockheed Martin executive of deception for publicly supporting a proposal to replace the F-35 engine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Apurva Mahajan
The U.S. House Armed Services Committee has authorized the U.S. Navy to establish a Naval Air Warfare Rapid Capabilities Office.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Jen DiMascio and Apurva Mahajan
The House Armed Services Committee passed its fiscal 2024 defense policy bill on June 21.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Lockheed Martin has teamed up with Airbus to offer a modified A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport, called LMXT, to the U.S. Air Force.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. manufacturer of MQ-9 Reapers has renewed its campaign to get the Biden administration to support transfers of the UAS to Ukraine.
Paris Air Show

By Brian Everstine
A Lockheed Martin executive says a specific program for cooling the F-35 is premature until the needs are fully understood.
Paris Air Show

The U.S. House Appropriations defense subcommittee is providing $826.5 billion for defense and intelligence in fiscal 2024.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Joe Anselmo, Guy Norris, Sean Broderick
Calhoun wants new types that delivers in the neighborhood a 20-30% improvement over today’s airplanes.
Paris Air Show

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has quickly deployed an undisclosed number of F-22s to the Middle East amid ongoing threatening behavior by Russia aircraft over Syria.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Joe Anselmo, Guy Norris
Aviation Week editors talk with GE’s CEO about the company’s breakup and new focus on aerospace.
Paris Air Show

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has awarded CAE a contract to conduct its new helicopter pilot training program.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Steve Trimble
A persistent and worsening cooling system shortfall is finally being addressed in a new upgrade package now being defined by the Joint Program Office.
Aircraft & Propulsion