Lockheed Martin has begun flight tests of its LM-100J commercial freighter version of the C-130J Hercules military airlifter, with FAA certification planned for 2018.
In this week's Washington Outlook: Lawmakers may have to clean up 2018 budget request—if they can pass a bill; U.S. airline advocates try to stem expansion of Gulf carriers; and Trump’s NATO demands.
Boeing is several months behind schedule on the tanker program, which means the first aircraft won’t be delivered until after September, top Air Force officials told Congress in written testimony May 25.
The U.S. Air Force is kick-starting a potentially multibillion-dollar program to replace the E-4B “Doomsday Plane” and the U.S. Navy’s E-6B Mercury fleet with a single fleet.
Boeing has lodged a protest over the U.S. Air Force’s decision to allow L3 Technologies to choose the next EC-130H Compass Call aircraft, alleging an unfair conflict of interest.
A push by the U.S. Air Force to equip the Lockheed Martin F-35 with the 500-lb. Raytheon-built GBU-49 has mitigated a looming five-year “capability gap” against moving and maneuvering targets.
The German Air Force is seriously interested in the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II as the central node of its future networked strike complex, which includes unmanned surrogates.
“The drawdown of flying hours for the F/A-18A/B Hornet in future years is in accordance with the planned transition to the F-35A Lightning,” Australia's defense department says.
The Zambian Air Force (ZAF) is negotiating with the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) for the possible acquisition of more advanced fighter and trainer jets, helicopters and heavy-lift transport aircraft, as it forges ahead with a force modernisation exercise. Oscar Nkala reports.
Boeing wins missile defense kill-vehicle contracts, UK’s RAF Fairford to host RC-135 Rivet Joint, North Korea’s latest missile test and the Swedish military buys satellite connectivity service.
The legacy of the space shuttle and X-37B will come together in Phantom Express, the reusable launch vehicle that Boeing is to build and fly under Darpa’s XS-1 experimental spaceplanes program.
The U.S. Air Force is funding construction of new facilities to house its European operating location for RC-135 Rivet Joint intelligence-gathering aircraft at RAF Fairford.
A little-known UN mission in Mali celebrates its fourth anniversary this month. Since the deployment began, the multidimensional integrated stabilisation mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has been working to help stabilise the situation after a Tuareg rebellion in 2012, followed by a jihadist insurgency, led to the French military being called into action. France's Operation Barkhane (originally Serval) continues to battle with jihadi fighters while MINUSMA tries to keep the peace. Alan Warnes reports.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has accelerated development of the warhead-killing Multi-Object Kill Vehicle (MOKV) by five years in response to emerging threats.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) $7.9 billion budget plan for fiscal 2018 includes almost $600 million over five years to finally begin addressing the hypersonic missile threat from Russia and China.
The news that the Dragon Lady will continue patrolling the skies indefinitely, revealed May 23 in President Donald Trump's budget request for fiscal 2018, is a reversal of the Air Force's previous plans.
