Defense

The Israeli Air Force has conducted aerial refueling tests with its first F-35s as it pushes to achieve an initial operating capability by year’s end.

Carrier trials preceded by synthetic testing led by UK F-35 pilot community.

The service has identified the key technologies it needs for the F-22 follow-on, including a more powerful engine and increased stealth.

According to Forrester Research, across all industries, 49% of global network security decision-makers report that they experienced at least one breach during the past 12 months.

Contributors from beyond the U.S. are helping to raise the $5 million needed to restore NASA’s Apollo-era Mission Control Center.

BAE Systems has been awarded a contract to run a spares warehouse for the Asia-Pacific fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.

Independent auditors have suggested the UK defense ministry could be facing a funding shortfall of around £30 billion ($38.5 billion) over the next decade.

Cobham will supply weapon carriage and launch equipment for the development program of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-X fighter.

Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. has chosen BAE Systems to supply the cockpit display system for the jet trainer that the Taiwanese company launched into full-scale development in April.

Completing development in four years might be easy enough if AIDC were just chasing the cockpit and avionics of the F-CK-1. But 80% of the structure is also changing and so are the aerodynamics.

Billie Flynn, the Lockheed Martin test pilot who flew the F-35A's premiere aerobatic performance at the Paris Air Show, opens up about what it's like to flight test both the F-16 and the Joint Strike Fighter.

The technology for retrieving powered vehicles in forward flight has remained largely unexplored for decades, since experiments in the 1940s and ’50s.

The U.S. Marine Corps F-35B squadron stationed in Japan since January will fly to Guam next month amid ongoing tensions with North Korea.

Boeing and Northrop have made it through the second round of the U.S. Air Force’s effort to replace today’s 1970s-era LGM-30 Minuteman III with a new Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent.

Boeing and Northrop have made it through the second round of the U.S. Air Force’s effort to replace today’s 1970s-era LGM-30 Minuteman III with a new Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent.

The U.S. Air Force is weighing buying a new light attack aircraft to fight terrorists, and the investment would also help retain fighter pilots who are leaving in droves.

With firm orders for 12 of its new SKYe SH09 rotorcraft in hand and letters of interest for about 100 more, Marenco Swiss Helicopters recently began flying its third prototype.

Heico on Aug. 18 said it will buy AeroAntenna Technology for up to $336.5 million, making up the aerospace electronics and parts provider’s largest single acquisition.

India’s state-run space agency has announced plans to launch 21 rockets in the next four years to bolster the country’s launch capability.

The U.S. Defense Department has test-launched the first tactical version of the AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile from a Boeing B-1B “Bone” supersonic bomber.

This new laser weapon represents the next step in the U.S. Army’s advancement of high-energy lasers for destroying enemy unmanned aerial vehicles and protecting troops from incoming rockets, artillery and mortar fire.

The U.S. Air Force is looking to outsource a new fleet of adversary aircraft to help prepare pilots for battle.

The change will make Cyber Command its own unified combatant command, removing it from U.S. Strategic Command.

Taiwan’s first step toward another indigenous fighter should be a technology acquisition effort, says the defense ministry’s technology agency, which would lead the early stages of the program.

NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay System Satellite-M separated from its United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle as scheduled following an Aug. 18 liftoff from Cape Canaveral.