Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin has told Aviation Week what the U.S. Air Force learned from the unprecedented strikes by seven B-2s on Iranian targets in June.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
The UK government will lay out plans to slash fielding times for most equipment in a bid to be more responsive, says UK Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
BAE Systems says it has fired precision weapons from a large quadcopter UAS to show how the combination can be used against drones and ground targets.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Ben Goldstein
Regent has lifted the veil on a new product line aimed at performing maritime defense missions with its 12-passenger electric seaglider.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems appears to have adopted a modestly swept, cropped delta wing planform for a combat air demonstrator.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
U.S. defense officials confirmed July 16 that a new version of the Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie will transition into a program of record for the U.S. Marine Corps.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Forcing the U.S. Navy to move forward on the F/A-XX program would slow the U.S. Air Force F-47 program, the Trump administration argues.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
The Global Combat Aircraft Program (GCAP) expects to have a flying prototype by 2030, says Lt. Gen. Antonio Conserva, the Italian Air Force chief.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
The Austrian Air Force is looking to define the requirements for its Eurofighter Typhoon replacement effort this year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
The UK government has named Air Marshal Harv Smyth to be the next chief of staff for the Royal Air Force.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
Airbus says it has signed an agreement with Kratos to offer a version of the XQ-58A Valkyrie for potential German Air Force use before the end of the decade.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Thales says it is in advanced talks with RTX to buy the U.S. company’s stake in the Thales-Raytheon Systems joint venture.
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 Guy Norris
Pratt & Whitney provides a rare glimpse of the XA103 adaptive engine and the digital design process underpinning its development.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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