Lockheed Martin F-22

Facing a reduction to its expected budget next year, the military cuts back on near-term aircraft procurement.

The U.S. Air Force’s Strike Eagles use new tech and training to focus on the Indo-Pacific after decades in the desert.

The U.S. Air Force is finally nearly ready to start flight testing a communications pod for the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus.

As a major F-35 program upgrade stalls shipments, Lockheed executives reconsider their appetite for risk with the Next-Generation Air Dominance program on deck.

Faced with an expected influx of testing with current infrastructure and staff maxed out, Edwards AFB aims to reinvent itself.

As 2024 begins, a looming decision in a Western capital will determine whether the Ukrainian air force will receive a new single-engine fighter. Sound familiar?

The fiscal 2024 defense policy bill is now headed to President Biden’s desk for his approval after the House OK’d the National Defense Authorization Act.

Aviation Week has assembled this guide to some of the most important contests that are unfolding between 2024 and 2033.

Congressional authorizers want a broad relook at U.S. Air Force and Navy tactical aircraft force structure.

The U.S. Air Force wants its early Collaborative Combat Aircraft to have range equal to or beyond that of fighter aircraft.

A gun camera photo with the F-22 in sight appears in a PAF 5th Fighter Wing publication, with a caption describing the kill as having been made with a “Fox 2.”

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall announced this plan during a speech earlier this month at the Air and Space Force Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference.

Instead of shooting down the next buoyant airspace intruder, DARPA wants to find a way to haul high-altitude balloons down safely from up to 75,000 ft.

The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin are beginning the second phase of yearly iterative updates to the F-22 fleet.

New technology is making simulated training more powerful than ever, but obstacles remain for the U.S. military to exploit recent advances fully.

The Senate Appropriations Committee on July 27 approved its $831.8 million defense spending bill for 2024.

Russia’s harassment of U.S. aircraft continues over Syria, this time with an Su-35 fighter damaging an MQ-9 Reaper UAV, forcing it to land.

The White House on July 10 announced strong opposition to several aspects of the House Armed Services Committee’s version of the 2024 defense policy bill.

China’s aerospace and defense industry noticeably still struggles to match or even approach U.S. and European mass production of fighter aircraft engines.

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.

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) released his markup of the fiscal 2024 defense policy bill on June 12.

The proposal is called the Fighter Force Preservation and Recapitalization Act of 2023, introduced last month.

The capital will support Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality System, which inserts synthetic images of objects, such as aircraft, on a pilot's display.

The U.S. Air Force plans to award a contract for a fighter aircraft to replace the F-22 Raptor in 2024.

U.S. hypersonic facilities need cash; China’s X-37B returns; Poland warms to Korea’s KF-21; and fleet retirement optimism.