Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Navy is eyeing plans to integrate a rotary-wing uncrewed air system on all of its surface vessels.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
UAE defense companies are showing off systems that if fielded could move the country into the category of makers of large autonomous combat aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Marketed as an aircraft designed to conduct humanitarian operations, AVIC's 60-tonne AG600 is also expected to serve the People’s Liberation Army.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Spirit AeroSystems celebrated the rollout of the 100th forward fuselage for the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker, the military version of the Boeing 767.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
U.S. forces have completely recovered the Chinese surveillance balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast on Feb. 4.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Germany could become a new source of center fuselages for the F-35 program, taking over from Turkish industry.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Consultancy Osprey Flight Services believes the U.S. is researching or has deployed ISR high-altitude balloons from Asia-Pacific sites or naval ships.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. government will rewrite the rulebook for aerial objects flying over U.S. airspace, President Joe Biden said.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Jen DiMascio
U.S. pushes for more Ukraine aid; U.S. tankers grounded; Polish MQ-9 flights to start; and replacing Russian platforms.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
GE Aerospace is beginning design work for a production standard version of the XA100 adaptive engine for the Lockheed Martin F-35.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Although the club is not pointing fingers, there are suspicions among other prominent members of the small, pico-ballooning enthusiasts community.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
European countries need to “reconverge” their space efforts, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said as he reported lower profits for Airbus' Defense and Space unit.
Space

By Brian Everstine
A U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk on a training flight Feb. 15 crashed in Huntsville, Alabama, killing two people on board.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is grounding its workhorse Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker fleet temporarily, along with reconnaissance variants.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
The Indian Defense Research and Development Organization has devised an automated landing system that is being put to the test on two N-LCA platforms.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Congress says no to U.S. Air Force buying electric aircraft, but the program continues.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Ben Goldstein
Joby Aviation announced that it has begun final assembly of its first partially-conforming S4 electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. sees a diplomatic and industrial opportunity in the number of countries looking for alternatives to their existing Russian-built platforms.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Australia ditches problematic European choppers for U.S. ones.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Jen DiMascio
Lockheed Martin is not giving up on its bid to sell the F-21, a specialized F-16 variant, to the Indian Air Force.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Thermoplastic fuselage; Tailless flight control; Robotic sheet-metal forming; Hydrogen aviation ecosystem.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
Among the lessons the French Air and Space Force has learned from the war in Ukraine is the importance of suppressing enemy air defenses.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Giriprakash Krishnamoorthy
India’s state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. could eventually be awarded the project to manufacture Naval Utility Helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered the strike on the “unidentified object” in Canadian airspace after speaking to U.S. President Joe Biden.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
A U.S. Air Force F-22 shot down an unidentified flying object off the coast of Alaska on Feb. 10.
Budget, Policy & Operations