Budget, Policy & Operations

The Osprey’s flight crew had made an emergency landing after the 15th confirmed case of a slipped slag clutch inside the tiltrotor's engine nacelle.

U.S. officials outlined 11 capabilities that will be delivered to Kyiv over the next six to 24 months.

European countries are beefing up security around their oil and gas facilities after the European Union and the Danish and Swedish governments declared the damage caused to both Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea as sabotage.

Visiting South Korea’s Sacheon Air Base on Sept. 28 to observe a test flight of the first prototype KF-21, senior Indonesian defense officials said the advancement of the aircraft into flight testing was a “tangible manifestation” of the platform’s development.

All of the fatal civilian casualties caused by U.S. airstrikes in 2021 occurred in the waning days of the war in Afghanistan, according to a new report, as the Pentagon promises a new mitigation plan will further lessen the number of innocents harmed.

Ground-launched Brimstones have been successful against Russian tanks in Ukraine; MBDA hopes the success attracts the British Army, too.

NASA's probe slammed into a targeted asteroid on Sept. 26 to demonstrate a kinetic impact strategy as a potential means of shielding the Earth from a disastrous collision in future.

UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has said funding pledges by new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss—to raise defense spending to 3% of gross domestic product—will be realized.

U.S. defense industry embraces flexibility and diversity in aircraft design for a future fleet of proposed Collaborative Combat Aircraft.

Air Mobility Command decides it can longer wait and “play chicken” with Boeing.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

After the loss of Soyuz, Amazon helps buttress Arianespace’s manifest.

Personnel at the Russian defense conglomerate are working overtime to meet demand.

France, Germany and other nations used the Airbus A330 to demonstrate long-distance deployment in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Adaptive Engine Transition Program is a competitive way to make sure the F-35 remains a competitive aircraft.

A Swiss campaign group established to derail the country’s procurement of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter by referendum has halted its work.

When U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall came into office in mid-2021, one of his first steps was to review the Advanced Battle Management System program and broader command and control modernization efforts.

A new security strategy prompted by the conflict in Ukraine could redefine the role of the military in Germany and how it views defense exports.

Unveiling the first MQ-4C Triton highlights a decade-old vision of continuous maritime patrol from high altitude over the Indo-Pacific.

France is studying basing options in the Indo-Pacific for its air force assets in anticipation of exercises in 2024.

The need for speed is emerging as more important than the need for range for air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles.

Although Russia remains a key and committed partner in the International Space Station program, the country is absent from the International Astronautical Congress.

U.S. Air Forces Central Command is standing up a new unit and designating funding to find new, cheaper ways to incorporate small drones for broad air surveillance, following a model that the U.S. Navy is using for maritime surveillance.

Global military spending growth and deglobalization will reshape defense markets in the 2020s.

It is time for the U.S. to move the management of traffic in space (STM) from the Defense Department to the Commerce Department, the three-star deputy commander of U.S. Space Command says.