Defense

Some U.S. politicians are calling for restarting the F-22 line, citing its superiority to the F-35. We weigh the pros and cons of each aircraft.

U.S. Marine Corps and U.K. F-35Bs will land vertically on a pad of AM-2 aluminum matting at Royal Air Force Fairford during the Royal International Air Tattoo.

MDA's directed energy roadmap shows continued investment in an assortment of high-power laser technologies that will be married with an unmanned missile shooter in the fiscal 2021 timeframe.

The U.S. Marine Corps is looking to improve readiness levels for both its AV-8B Harrier jets and its CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters amid an increase in mishaps for the fleets.

CEO and President Eileen Drake is continuing the trimming and reorganization of Aerojet Rocketdyne, with the company announcing June 27 it will consolidate its six business units into two, Space and Defense.

A Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion helicopter successfully lifted the equivalent of two up-armored Humvees during recent testing in West Palm Beach, Florida.

NASA’s Curiosity rover, nearing the fourth anniversary of its drama-filled landing on Mars, has detected an unexpected mineral in the rock it is sampling as it methodically climbs Mount Sharp.

Raytheon has completed a key test milestone in developing the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS OCX, proving the ground control segment’s ability to securely transfer information between government agencies.

Raytheon has completed a key test milestone in developing the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS OCX, proving the ground control segment’s ability to securely transfer information between government agencies.

The companies that lost out to Aurora Flight Sciences to build DARPA’s high-speed VTOL demonstrator have taken the wraps off their competing designs.

Air Force Special Operations Command is pushing industry to demonstrate an offensive laser weapon on an AC-130W by the turn of the decade.

The lead aircraft of a U.S. Army program to upgrade Beechcraft King Air 350ER-based MC-12Ws to the multimission Emarss airborne reconnaissance standard has flown for the first time.

The U.S. Navy’s fifth and final Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite is being raised to its final orbit after its June 24.

Pundits fear that British referendum could be catalyst for European disintegration.

The head of U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command has renewed his commitment to fielding an AC-130 “mini arsenal plane” equipped with a high-energy laser by the turn of the decade.

NASA has awarded the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) a five-year, $196.3 million contract extension for operations of the 26-year-old Hubble Space Telescope (HST) through the Space Telescope Science Institute of Baltimore.

The U.K.’s aerospace and defense industry has been left reeling after voters elected to ditch membership in the European Union.

India’s Nag—an indigenously-made, third-generation, anti-tank guided missile—is being prepared for induction into the country’s military forces, but with a slightly reduced range.

The Team Spartan joint venture proposing the Italian-built Leonardo C-27J to replace Canada’s outdated Lockheed Martin C-130 and de Havilland DHC-5 Buffalo search-and-rescue fleets has proposed Comox, British Columbia, as its aircrew and maintainer training hub.

Tokyo would have to vastly increase its defense research and development budget to create an all-new fighter.

With production of several large programs ramping up this year, the challenge for French aerospace companies will be to maintain quality and schedule.

At the Pentagon and on Wall Street, they are beginning to consider the possible impacts from Trump vs. Clinton. On Capitol Hill, there is blow-back from Boeing’s Iran deal.

Splitting up is hard to do, but sometimes necessary. That is what Alcoa-turned-Arconic’s chief executive and chairman tells Aviation Week in a recent interview about his company’s future.

Airbus Defense & Space has been asked to begin sounding out potential possibilities for a German requirement to replace its Panavia Tornado combat aircraft in the 2030s-40s.

The potential vulnerability of the F-35 program's main data hub is now under control, the Pentagon says.