Aircraft & Propulsion

Marines choose UAS prize challenge winners; KF-X to receive Meteor missiles; Vying for F-16 EW upgrades and Lockheed’s UK ambitions.

Spain has chosen Pilatus’ PC-21 turboprop trainer to replace the air force’s fleet of CASA C-101 Aviojets, tender documents show.

Spain has chosen Pilatus’ PC-21 turboprop trainer to replace the air force’s fleet of CASA C-101 Aviojets, tender documents show.

The U.S. Defense Department has awarded the initial contract to Lockheed Martin to support the first lot of full-rate production for the F-35A.

There is never anything simple about the design and delivery of aerospace and defense technology.

Top Aces, an adversary air training provider, said Nov. 26 that it will receive $100 million in new financing.

Poland is returning its RSK MiG-29 “Fulcrum” fighter aircraft to flight status after it was grounded for much of 2019.

Russia’s JSC Rosoboronexport, a subsidiary of the state corporation Rostec, has begun marketing new-generation combat aircraft, according to Alexander Mikheev, director general.

Raytheon says its Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) will be cleared to fly on the F-35A within days.

Russian arms buyers hang in limbo as fallout from Turkey’s defiant S-400 delivery remains unclear.

Turkish Aerospace has rolled out the first locally-assembled T-70 Black Hawk helicopter to be built under the Turkish Utility Helicopter Program (TUHP).

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has contracted MBDA to integrate the Meteor long-range air-to-air missile on the KF-X indigenous fighter.

A competition has opened between L3Harris and Northrop Grumman to upgrade the self-protection jamming systems on hundreds of U.S. Air Force F-16s.

Omega Air took delivery of the first of two former Royal Netherlands Air Force KDC-10 aircraft that they could potentially use to provide a tanking service to the U.S. Air Force.

Eyeing potential opportunities for F-35 sales in Spain, Portugal and elsewhere, Lockheed Martin aims to eventually produce 4,000 of the fifth-generation fighters, a company official said Nov. 21.

The U.S. State Department has approved a long-awaited Foreign Military Sale of Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to Morocco.

Taurus is promoting the KEPD 350 cruise missile to Japan for the Boeing F-15, despite a government statement in 2018 that it would acquire the Lockheed Martin AGM-158 Jassm for the fighter.

MBDA sees a possibility of selling Meteor long-range air-to-air missiles to Japan despite the defense ministry’s current acquisition of Raytheon AIM-120C-7 Amraams.

New Zealand has received State Department approvals to purchase five Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules following the type’s selection as its future transport aircraft.

Aviation Week editors Guy Norris, Steve Trimble, and Graham Warwick discuss the details of the existence of the stealthy RQ-180.

Surprise last-minute contract vaults UAE into manned military aircraft manufacturing club.

A legal dispute over who owns intellectual property is the source of a 2.5-year delay to the fifth-generation fighter’s full-rate production decision.

U.S.-based adversary air companies are beginning to return Dassault Mirage F1s to flight in preparation for their role as commercial-operated aggressor aircraft.

European researchers have for the first time flown an aircraft with a wing that is aeroelastically tailored for passive load alleviation.

Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) plans to deliver by June 2020 a batch of eight aircraft from the T-50 military jet family that Thailand ordered two years ago.