Aircraft & Propulsion

Turkish government changes recruitment laws to let the air force to solve pilot crisis and recruit officers before they graduate from college.

What you need to know going into the Air Force Association’s annual air and space symposium.

U.S. Air Force’s top uniformed acquisition officer is trying to cut costs and maintain schedules during a major overhaul of top aircraft programs.

In this defense roundup, India’s Light Utility Helicopter, Spain’s first A400M fly, Poland may seek Patriots and a Predator B could get European certification.

The future of defense procurement was parsed brilliantly by lauded science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, well more than a half-decade ago.

Thinking about the next fighter as an airplane first and foremost is a strategic mistake.

Why some very important military airplanes don’t look like military airplanes.

The Pentagon’s weapons-test watchdog and the F-35 program leaders are at loggerheads. Don’t expect it to change any time soon.

Secrecy, nuclear weapons and (of course) the JSF will be talking points in the coming year.

Fighter operators and Pentagon acquisition troops are talking past each other. That can’t end well.

Britain’s defense review put a few surprises under the tree for industries and operators.

A formal protest of the Pentagon’s Long-Range Strike Bomber award to Northrop Grumman has to be based on failure to follow rules, but the challengers’ public case goes far beyond that.

Northrop Grumman undercut its rivals’ price to win the bomber contract, and the Pentagon’s requirements could have given it the chance to do so.

Canada’s Liberals didn’t have to go on the record against the F-35. Nobody expected them to win an outright majority. Guess what just happened.

Are unmanned air vehicles worth their impact on the Air Force budget? We don’t really know.

Remember when the F-35 was going to be the only Western fighter in production after 2020? That’s not how it looks today.

This week’s Check 6 marks the start of a series of special features running before Aviation Week & Space Technology’s 100th anniversary in 2016 with a discussion of stealth and counter-stealth technology.

Much of the history of stealth has taken place under a shroud of secrecy that often hid important events from insiders as well as the public. It’s been a vast and often chaotic development, driven by technology, economics and geopolitics—and even the goals set 30 years ago have yet to be met.

You can assume that the T-50 is a Russian F-22, or that jammers on trucks can’t affect an air campaign. But if you’re wrong, you’re in trouble.

Some people conjecture that the next bomber will be supersonic or B-2-sized. It probably won’t be either.

Lasers, microwave weapons and railguns have flopped before. Here are some ways to stop that from happening again.

Some Australian politicians say they know the best answer for the country’s submarine needs. They don’t.

Think that range, payload and stealth will be the deciding factors in the Air Force’s bomber choice? Think again.

Service leaders are right to say that the F-35 is better than the aircraft they have today. But that’s not the whole story.

The Air Force expects a multi-player competition over TX. But has it thought its brilliant plan all the way through?