Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has lifted the veil on its concept for an autonomous collaborative combat aircraft that would accompany current combat aircraft into battle.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Photos from Bombardier Defense and Lufthansa Technik Defense show the modified Global 6000 with large cheek and under-fuselage fairings.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
The Pentagon’s advanced research agency has selected six teams to develop preliminary designs for a shipborne VTOL uncrewed aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The company is flight-testing a subscale rotor blown wing as it pursues advanced UAS for an array of missions.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Canada's procurement agency plans to fast-track its new fighter training program, awarding a contract within three years and introducing the jet by 2030.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
An Air Force F-15 pilot failed to engage the emergency braking/steering system during an emergency landing, causing the Eagle to crash into an irrigation canal.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The letter of agreement signed on June 4 by a procurement delegation sent by the Ministry of Defense Washington moves forward Israel’s third batch of F-35Is.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Turkish uncrewed air systems developer Baykar Technology has demonstrated its Bayraktar TB3 platform can be operated from a ship fitted with a ski jump.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Joby Aviation has acquired the autonomy division of Xwing, a U.S. startup developing a modular autonomous flight system for aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Belgium’s government has approved a long-awaited purchase of 15 Airbus H145M twin-engine light helicopters for the country’s military.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
With the Collaborative Combat Aircraft, the head of Lockheed Martin’s advanced development arm challenges U.S. Air Force planners and competitors.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
NH90 manufacturer NHIndustries is urging the Swedish government not to retire the country’s fleet of the helicopters early and replace them with UH-60s.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The life expectancy of a future Collaborative Combat Aircraft is not a trivial question.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
A Japanese consortium has committed to invest $100 million in Aalto, the Airbus-owned spinoff company flying the Zephyr high-altitude, pseudo-satellite UAS.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Stockholm is transferring its remaining Saab ASC 890 aircraft to bolster Kyiv’s air defense capacity.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Boeing on May 31 resumed delivering KC-46 tankers to the U.S. Air Force following an almost three-month pause.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The Netherlands has declared its Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet ready to take on the dual-capable aircraft (DCA) nuclear mission from the F-16.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall, Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne
Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss the GAO's latest report on the F-35 and explain what's hampering the now $2 trillion program.
Check 6

By Steve Trimble
Laflamme Aero has started responding to commercial requests for the tandem-rotor LX300 uncrewed helicopter, a company official says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Saab is planning technology demonstrations to prove to Sweden's government that it can develop the nation’s next combat aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Lloyd’s Register will also advise Regent on the maritime certification process of the 12-passenger Viceroy with the U.S. Coast Guard.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. State Department has approved a Swedish top-up purchase of Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Saab has proposed a Nordic pooling and sharing initiative for the operation of Sweden’s planned future fleet of GlobalEye airborne early warning aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) has confirmed that the Lockheed Martin F-35B that crashed in New Mexico on May 28 was a development test aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Canada finalized a contract with the CAE- and KF Aerospace-led SkyAlyne team to modernize the initial fixed-wing and helicopter RCAF pilot training pipeline.
Aircraft & Propulsion