India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone for the plant that will produce Airbus C295s turboprop airlifters for the Indian Air Force.
The U.S. Air Force is ready to make a commitment to fielding a Collaborative Combat Aircraft—a loyal wingman-type drone to fly alongside future fighters—after r
Airbus is expecting a contract for two Indonesian A400Ms to go into full effect in November and has already secured production slots for the aircraft, a company official says.
Australia’s department of defense is sticking with the Lockheed Martin C-130J to replace and expand the Royal Australia Air Force’s existing fleet of 12 C-130Js under its medium air mobility replacement program.
Lockheed Martin is pitching a three-phase adoption of datalinks, processing and enhanced situational awareness for its LMXT tanker, as the U.S. Air Force works through its requirements and decides whether to continue with a competition for the KC-Y “bridge tanker.”
The U.S. Marine Corps has taken the first step toward fielding a new Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) Family of Systems (FOS), releasing a request for information (RFI) on Oct. 21 to gather information on available options.
If the U.S. Air Force’s current plan succeeds, a single or a family of fully autonomous, collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) could enter service by the end of the decade, but what ... are they?
The C-390 Millennium is a truly remarkable aircraft, fast gaining a reputation for its reliability and performance in delivering vital aid, completing humanitarian missions and playing a key role in joint military exercises.
Embraer has partnered with L3Harris to offer the KC-390 aircraft to the U.S. Air Force with a refueling boom, creating an “Agile Tanker” option alongside the twinjet’s tactical airlift capability.
A U.S. Navy research center has received the first of three transverse folding-wing uncrewed air systems supplied by Pterodynamics to start the next phase of a months-long prototyping demonstration for autonomous cargo delivery at sea.
The UK Royal Air Force has extended the life of its Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules airlifters for another three months as it attempts to overcome shortfalls in availability of its Airbus A400M fleet.
Airbus has demonstrated an aerial firefighting kit for its A400M airlifter, showing that the four-engine turboprop can deliver 20 metric tons of water onto a fire in less than 10 sec.
The German and French air forces plan deployments to the Asia-Pacific region in August, highlighting their targets to reach key points in Asia within stipulated times and demonstrate their airpower capabilities.
SpaceX CRS-25 autonomously docked to the International Space Station’s U.S. segment Harmony module on July 16, delivering more than 5,800 lbs. of crew supplies, science investigations, technology development projects and station hardware.
Canada has ordered two 7-year-old Airbus A330-200 aircraft worth $102 million from a lessor to convert into a new tanker-transport fleet, making them the first two aircraft purchased to replace five A310-derived CC-150 Polaris jets.
The U.S. Defense Department has requested high-level configuration proposals for a Blended Wing Body (BWB) that can be 30% more efficient than the aerodynamics of the Boeing 767 and Airbus A330 and combine with a new generation of propulsion technology to reduce fuel burn more than 60% by 2030 compared to the current technology.
The South Korea Air Force is potentially looking to develop a Generation-5.5 fighter based on the Korea Aerospace Industries KF-21 Boramae, under the so-called KF-XX program.
