Aircraft & Propulsion

BAE secures foreign development partner role on Turkish TF-X fighter project.

Northrop, Raytheon bow out of $16 billion trainer competition, leaving a distinct opening for Boeing and Lockheed.

The aircraft would replace HAL’s Tejas on the navy’s 44,400-ton aircraft carrier, the INS Vikramaditya.

Top Norwegian defense officials say Lockheed needs to step up sustainment work.

As Russia beefs up its military and signals a more aggressive foreign policy, the JSF is essential to guarding NATO's northern flank.

Stealth technology and counterstealth techniques are part of an age-old cat-and-mouse game between military adversaries. Our editors discuss the latest developments and what is coming soon.

Eyes may be on the T-X competition, but the international market remains ripe for training aircraft.

A thumbnail outline of most nation’s plans to replace their trainer aircraft in light of many current trainers approaching retirement.

As the Pentagon postpones a final decision on the fate of the aging Warthog, the aircraft’s maintainers are challenged to keep up with demand from the field.

The T-X and J-Stars competitions are finally underway, but who will respond and who is all talk?

Two Joint Strike Fighters caught fire in 2016, the latest version of the logistics system is delayed, and the final warfighting software still has problems.

U.S. Air Force kicks off its $16.3 billion T-X contest as gaps in fighter pilot training grow.

Bell’s V-280 and Sikorsky/Boeing’s SB-1 aim to change how the U.S. Army fights wars.

Berlin is planning to spend an extra €10 billion on defense by 2020.

The Joint Strike Fighter is fast becoming the most sought-after combat aircraft in the world, as international partners and customers begin to operate their first jets.

After a challenging year for the U.S. Air Force’s new tanker, Boeing expects to begin fuel deliveries to fighters in August.

Armed German Eurofighters are supporting the expanded Baltic Air Policing Program.

Sierra Nevada Corp. and Turkish Aerospace Industries are making a surprise pitch of their Williams International FJ44-4M-powered Freedom Trainer for the T-X program.

Germany gives Sea Lion room to succeed as it mulls other helicopter acquisitions.

Sens. Cochran and Wicker lend Republican clout to the company’s low-risk entry for the U.S. Air Force T-X trainer competition under a Trump presidency.

Drawing up a concept that emphasizes weapon load and endurance over maneuverability, designers at the Japanese defense ministry have come up with an aircraft that is longer than the F-22 and has a considerably greater wingspan.

Tom Kennedy outlines why he thinks the U.S. Air Force will want the kind of low-risk T-X trainer Raytheon is offering.

Fiscal 2017 U.S. defense budget includes plans to replace Afghan fleet of Mi-17 helicopters.

The Bell 412 will be built and assembled on both sides of the Pacific. FHI’s manufacturing setup will be a second production line, says Bell.

Operators are seeing wrinkles in the low-observable coating that could eventually peel off and compromise the fighter’s stealth.