Defense

With Sikorsky deal, and IT divestitures, Lockheed Martin is doubling-down on weapons for Washington

A highly stressed UAV force may have finally worn down USAF resistance to automatic UAV takeoff and landing systems.

Eurofighter engineers and pilots claim to have made big improvements with some small shape changes.

The Kawasaki P-1 was showcased for senior British officers in advance of Japan’s anticipated bid for the U.K.’s new maritime patrol contract.

Redesigns and retrofits required to address a faulty integrated fuel system for the tanker appear to be the cause of the latest cost overrun for Boeing to keep the U.S. Air Force’s KC-46 aerial refueling program on track.

USAF designed it, but will industry build Super Strypi rail-launched rocket?

Boeing has not won a single international KC-46 order thus far; the Airbus KC-30 now has 48 orders.

The U.S. Marine Corps has completed an operational readiness inspection of its first F-35B squadron, the last major hurdle before the service can assess whether VMFA-121 in Yuma, Arizona, is suitable to declare initial operational capability.

The planned $9 billion purchase could be more defining for Lockheed, the Pentagon’s leading prime contractor, than helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky or even the rotorcraft market.

This first delivery comes just five months after the Egyptian decision to acquire 24 Rafales (16 two-seaters and eight single-seaters) in order to equip its Air Force with a latest-generation multirole fighter capable of meeting the country's operational requirements and enabling Egypt, with full sovereignty, to secure its geostrategic position in the region.

Boeing is taking another charge on its books, $835 million before taxes, to keep the Air Force's KC-46 aerial refueling tanker program on track.

Think that range, payload and stealth will be the deciding factors in the Air Force’s bomber choice? Think again.

Perceived threat from Turkey keeps Greek defense spending high as country suffers.

Boeing believes airplane manufacturing costs can be cut drastically—and it has a secret program aimed at proving it.

With the rapid growth of commercial aviation, the label “aerospace and defense” has become largely irrelevant, if not entirely misleading.

Is this the beginning of the end of the great A&D stock boom?

Despite Iran deal, the Middle East is a hotbed of weapons sales, FAA threatens to downgrade Thai aviation safety, cost of operating the ISS skyrockets and a politician’s home-state advantage.

USAF sent destruct signals for Falcon 9 a full 70 sec. after mishap.

U.K. defense electronics firm Ultra Electronics is developing a new family of miniature passive sonobuoys that eventually could lend themselves to deployment from unmanned aerial systems.

Aerospace management leaders who explain more in earnings calls may be better able to win the battle for talent and capital, too.

In a Q&A with Aviation Week editors, Raytheon Chairman and CEO Tom Kennedy talks about new opportunities, challenges, and being his own disruptor.

Lockheed could convert the U.K. Royal Air Force’s existing fleet of C-130J airlifters into SC-130Js, reducing procurement costs and technical risks, company officials told Aviation Week on the eve of the RNAS Yeovilton Air Day.

Could live, virtual training fundamentally change the dynamics of future Red Flags?

Interoperability of Europe’s helicopter crews is tested by the Italian Blade exercise.

With Seoul’s selection of the A330 MRTT, the Airbus tanker has now beaten the Boeing KC-46 in nine non-U.S. competitions. Launch customer Australia, meanwhile, has set Airbus’s airliner-to-tanker conversion program in motion.