Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The incident is the first publicly disclosed American death connected to loitering munitions.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.) highlighted the issue during a March 23 House Appropriations Defense subcommittee hearing.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Slovakia has become the first country to declare it has delivered operational crewed combat aircraft to Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Finland has begun allowing allies to conduct surveillance flights along the country’s 1,300-km border with Russia.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
NATO’s multinational aerial refueling unit is to receive a 10th aircraft, partner nations have agreed.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
A five-year-old plan to in-source major airpower capabilities is threatened by political, economic and industrial forces.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
A long-awaited transfer of Polish and Slovakian MiGs will help restore Ukrainian air force capacity, but they add few needed capabilities.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Although the rollout event was canceled, Turkish Aerospace Industries released images of the TF-X on March 18.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
In the past 18 months, three of the NH90’s 14 national customers have concluded that the efforts to keep it operational are not worth pursuing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The service is ending the Adaptive Engine Transition Program for its fleet, opting instead for Pratt’s cheaper Engine Core Upgrade proposal.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The Biden administration’s fiscal 2024 request includes an increase in procurement and research and looks to cut the current fleet to pay for it.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
North Macedonia has confirmed it has joined Poland and Slovakia in supplying Soviet-era combat aircraft to Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The reported freeze in Pentagon funding to 2022 appropriated levels was reported in January.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo Helicopters Managing Director Gian Piero Cutillo talks digitalization, supply chains and his vision for the company’s UK operation.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The agency's budget request would provide funding to land humans on the lunar surface by the end of 2025.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force plans to increase spending on its future Survivable Airborne Operations Center to replace the aging E-4B Nightwatch.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Portugal is to acquire close air support aircraft as part of an uptick in the country’s defense spending.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Slovakia will send 13 Mikoyan MiG-29s to refresh a combat-scarred Ukrainian air force fleet, adding to up to 24 Fulcrum fighters committed by Poland.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Expectations remain high that L3Harris Technologies will buy Aerojet Rocketdyne, despite a prolonged antitrust review.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The announcement by Warsaw breaks a year-long impasse over whether Western governments would heed Ukrainian demands for fighters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The Air Force is planning to buy 10 Wedgetails over the next five years to recapitalize its air-moving target indicator mission.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Thierry Dubois
This year’s AsterX—a name evocative of both space and a popular cartoon character—was part of a joint exercise inspired by the war in Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
EUCOM released the video from the MQ-9A’s belly-mounted MTS-B sensor on March 16 after Russia denied that the intercept by two Su-27s led to a collision.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. is not yet sure if a pair of Russian fighters intended to down an MQ-9 Reaper UAV over the Black Sea on March 14.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force will see its spending increase dramatically in nuclear modernization over the next five years.
Budget, Policy & Operations