Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A plan to buy thousands of palletized missiles next year to be launched by airlifters introduces a new kind of weapon along with integration challenges.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
More than five months into the second Trump administration, it is becoming increasingly clear who the winners and losers are in Western aerospace and defense.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Brian Everstine
For years, members of the U.S. Navy’s Super Hornet and Growler community had raised the question of adding a ground collision avoidance system (GCAS).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Safran has laid the first stone for a new turbine blade factory in Rennes, France, as the group creates the foundry for its civil Leap and military M88 engines.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has deployed two of its new Boeing F-15EX Eagle IIs to Kadena Air Base, Japan, as it prepares to stand up a unit of the fighters at the base.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Norway can buy nine Sikorsky HH-60W combat search-and-rescue helicopters, the U.S. government announced on July 11.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The BAE Systems PHASA-35 high-altitude, solar-electric, uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) will carry an Aloft Sensing X-band synthetic aperture radar.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Samuel Archer
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AWIN Knowledge Center

By Guy Norris
Pratt & Whitney has released imagery of its digitally designed XA103 next-generation adaptive combat engine and says initial parts production is underway.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Japan’s Marubeni is to resume demonstration flights with Lift Aircraft’s electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) Hexa at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Chinese automaker GAC conducted the first flight of its Govy AirJet winged electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing AirJet on July 3.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Robert Wall
An audit of the UK’s F-35 program shows it continues to suffer from delays in deliveries, capability enhancements and reliability shortfalls.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
After a lull, Turkey is starting to lay out more for defense.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall, Joe Anselmo
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Turkey’s ASFAT is trying to turn domestic military factories into export powerhouses for aerospace maintenance and parts.
Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
The maker of the Predator and Reaper family of uncrewed aircraft systems now finds itself as the target of an industry newcomer, but GA-ASI is fighting back.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
In the July 10 memo, released then redacted, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth outlines a goal of making the U.S. the world’s leader in drone operations.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
U.S. Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, said he will continue blocking indefinitely the transfer of Lockheed Martin F-35s purchased by Turkey during a July 9 hearing.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brandon Patrick
Despite DARPA’s recent decision to cancel its Liberty Lifter program, amphibious fixed-wing military aircraft seem to be—to one extent or another—here to stay.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Tony Osborne
Missile programs and procurement are at the heart of a renewed defense cooperation agreement between France and the UK.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Belgium will halt operations with its land-based NH90 tactical transport helicopters, aiming to replace them in 2026, Defense Minister Theo Francken says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Swedish company Avioniq is developing an artificial intelligence-driven pilot aid that could help Eurofighter Typhoon crews in air combat.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
Boeing says it is still pursuing South Korea’s AEW requirement after the U.S. government’s failure to submit a formal offer in the third and latest round of bidding threw an E-7 proposal into doubt.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A House panel has endorsed a DARPA plan to fly a reusable hypersonic aircraft demonstrator for reconnaissance and strike missions.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Bell will get a chance to build an X-plane demonstrator for high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing technology based on a stop/fold rotor system.
Aircraft & Propulsion