Bell Boeing V-22

The Navy announced in February that it was negotiating a sole-source contract with Bell-Boeing to shut down V-22 production.

The USMC modernization plan for aviation focuses a starting a new loitering munition program and investing in vertical take-off and landing systems.

With Osprey orders ending and the Chinook awaiting a major U.S. Army decision, Boeing is devising a new future for its Philadelphia campus.

Mercury Systems had a respectable fiscal 3Q, but overshadowing the performance was significant pressure on margins tied to slow-moving development programs.

Metrea’s business case rests on the uncomfortable fact that hundreds of Air Force-owned air refueling aircraft cover only a fraction of the potential demand.

The U.S. military’s V-22 operators—the Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force—have reached the end of their programs of record for the tiltrotor.

One or more experimental aircraft could start flying in 2027 to prove the feasibility of a transporter that can speed up like a jet and land like a helicopter.

DARPA will start a new program aimed at high-speed, runway-independent aircraft.

The time-limit restriction now applies to the input quill assemblies inside the engine nacelles for the entire V-22 fleet.

The changes under review within the U.S. Marine Corps are so extensive that replacing the Bell Boeing MV-22 with a new aircraft is possible.

The U.S. Marine Corps is halving its planned 2021 buy of F-35Bs to 10 jets, while the Navy is purchasing three fewer F-35Cs than in the previous year’s budget projection.

Leonardo has begun flight tests of the latest iteration of its Osprey active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar.