Defense

The Air Force’s training school for operators of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) sees surging demand for enrollment.

Pilots learning to fly the P-8A Poseidon are spending a majority of their time in simulator-based training.

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Everyone pays attention to China’s new fighters, but the most important developments may be closer to the ground.

NASA already is learning about distributed electric propulsion from a unique low-cost testbed, as it completes high-power static tests ahead of low-speed taxi trials leading to high-speed runs on the dry lakebed at Edwards AFB, California, in January.

There shouldn’t be much doubt that the F-35 program is making progress, but the larger questions remain.

In an unprecedented move, Israeli defense procurement panel rejects defense minister’s decision to buy 31 more F-35As.

NATO might be calling on its members to raise their defense spending, but if the alliance’s airborne early warning program is anything to go by, that message maybe falling on deaf ears.

Upper ranks of the Chinese government have decided to split off the collection of factories and design institutes known as Avic Engine, say industry officials in China. The future of a separate subsidiary that is struggling to build a competitive civil turbofan, Avic Commercial Aircraft Engines (ACAE), is unconfirmed, but the unit must face a large risk of being folded into the mainstream aviation propulsion group, losing funding and priority.

USAF Test Pilot School involves students in testing Auto ACAS collision avoidance system, providing benefits for all parties involved in the process.

Aviation Week Senior Editor Guy Norris takes us on a test flight of the automatic air collision avoidance system, auto ACAS, with the U.S. Air Force 416th Flight-Test Sqdn.

Testing USAF’s new fighter collision avoidance poses challenges in preventing mishaps during the test-flight evaluation process

Royal Navy helicopters from the UK have delivered essential materials to Northern Sierra Leone as part of the ongoing efforts to tackle Ebola.

Pentagon and Wall Street veterans underscore why the challenges facing the aerospace and defense industry run much deeper than sequestration.

The Aviation Register of Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC AR) issued a Supplemental Type Certificate for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100), permitting the usage of Vertical Navigation (VNAV) functionality at all stages of flight.

Unmanned aircraft are most often viewed as augmenting manned aircraft, perhaps eventually replacing some of them, but a more likely future lies in their becoming intimately essential to each other. Two new U.S. research notices give hints of such an outcome.

Aviation Week's Bill Sweetman discusses the key takeaways from the recent China Airshow with Joe Anselmo. In addition to China's development of military aircraft, Sweetman details the tremendous push toward missile systems, radars and other command and control systems.

After years of delays and cost overruns, Germany is expecting to receive its first A400M in the next few months despite ongoing disputes with Airbus.

Russian encounters with civilian and NATO aircraft on the fringes of Europe appear aimed at testing the alliance’s solidarity and resolve

Battle-tested Watchkeeper UAV proved its worth in Afghanistan, and the British Army is now seeking to futher augment its capabilities

Lockheed Martin has crafted a new, reduced cost plan to “optionally man” its U-2.

Radar agreement expected to help propel the aircraft into the 4.5-generation category.

Studies by the Japanese defense ministry’s Technical Research and Development Institute that point to the advantages of big fighters with the fuel capacity and aerodynamic optimization to keep them on station longer. Range alone is not enough, however. The aircraft also should be networked.