Aviation Week editors discuss the roots of the service’s Next Generation Air Dominance program, its use of digital engineering to speed development and some of the obstacles it may face in the future.
Rolls-Royce is part of Boeing’s industry team to support the rotorcraft as it faces off against Sikorsky’s CH-53K King Stallion to secure the lucrative Schwerer Transporthubschrauber (STH) contract.
Raytheon Technologies is on its way to cutting at least 15,000 employees in response to the company’s recent merger and the fallout from COVID-19, the aerospace and defense giant’s CEO told an investor conference, and likely more will occur.
A little-known technology development program involving secret unmanned aircraft systems has helped to seed the air vehicles available for the AFRL's pioneering Skyborg program.
The Speed Racer project harkens back to the Skunk Works' origins as the company that built the first XP-80 in 143 days and the first U-2 in less than nine months.
Leonardo is proposing a military variant of its AW139 twin-engine medium helicopter for Poland as a replacement for the country’s aging W-3 Sokol and Mi-2 rotorcraft.
Verizon Skyward and French manufacturer Parrot have partnered to offer a drone training and operations management package based on Parrot’s Anafi USA quadcopter, the companies announced Sept. 15.
Britain’s Royal Air Force will adopt new technologies to identify and prosecute targets in more locations simultaneously than what is possible today, the air arm’s most senior officer says.
The head of the U.S. Air Force’s mobility fleet needs more data from Boeing on the KC-46 Remote Vision System (RVS) upgrade plan to determine if an interim fix is worth taking the maintenance downtime.
A full-scale flight demonstrator for the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance program has already flown in secret and “broken records” in the process, a senior official said on Sept. 15.
Although the U.S. Air Force proposed to terminate the General Atomics MQ-9 production line in the last budget cycle, the service may opt to employ the Reaper in a new way: as an attritable aircraft that the military can afford to lose in a war with China or Russia.
The German Army has begun to take delivery of Airbus Tiger attack helicopters with a new upgrade that will act as a baseline for Tiger Mk.3 development.
Greece will purchase six new-build Dassault Rafales and receive 12 second-hand aircraft from French Air Force stocks, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has confirmed.
The Klimov Co., a subsidiary of Russia’s United Engine Corp., plans to finish development of a new RD-93MA turbofan for the Sino-Pakistani JF-17 single-engine fighter next year.
