Boeing C-17

The first aircraft could be produced as early as fiscal 2038.

The U.S. Air Force's renewed look at the future of its aerial refueling fleet is again prioritizing stealthy, new build aircraft, if the service can afford it.

Planned investments for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) include several key procurements across the domains of air mobility, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), training, air combat capability, and unmanned systems.

Ukraine is set to start receiving the first long-range, air-launched cruise missiles from the United States by the beginning of next month.

The U.S. Air Force confirmed on July 25 that it is pursuing the acquisition of a cruise missile similar to the Ukraine-bound Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM).

A plan to buy thousands of palletized missiles next year to be launched by airlifters introduces a new kind of weapon along with integration challenges.

Space rockets and Boeing C-17-sized wing-in-ground effect vehicles rank among candidates attempting to solve one of the U.S. military's toughest problems.

Protesters broke into the UK Royal Air Force’s main air transport base and sprayed red paint on two of the service’s Airbus A330 Voyager tankers.

The USAF's Air Mobility Command is calling on industry to take some initial steps to fill newly defined gaps in its aeromedical evacuation.

A powder metal part-contamination problem affects hundreds of Pratt & Whitney PW2000 engines on Boeing 757s and C-17s that will require inspections.

Advances in fighters, airlifters and refuelers are necessary for the U.S. military to compete with the Chinese Air Force, says the head of Indo-Pacific Command.

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

The late-February request from the Air Force reflects a broader strategy to use government funds to seed investments in future commercial products.

The CMMT leverages Lockheed Martin’s Rapid Dragon palletized munitions platform concept.

The Boeing-owned company received a nearly $25 million award from DARPA on Feb. 27.

Airbus finds itself in this position because the A400M backlog is dwindling.

Milestones loom in the coming months for future refueler and airlifter programs amid funding uncertainty.

LQMs are sophisticated machine-learning models that are trained on vast amounts of data generated using physics-based methods.

The deployment plan overhauls how personnel prepare to deploy, creating four six-month stages.

The early planning comes as the service is standing up its new Integrated Capabilities Command to look across its mission sets for new acquisition programs.

The service’s Operational Energy office has outlined several programs aimed at increasing the efficiency of military aircraft.

U.S. Air Force leaders say the service’s mobility fleet of tankers and airlifters need to become more connected to each other.

Top service official says tanker, fighter and Collaborative Combat Aircraft plans are unaffordable without large changes.

The U.S. military’s aeromedical evacuation (AE) personnel have become very specialized and good at what they do.

This year, that operational requirement comes as the U.S. Air Force also undergoes a large-scale overhaul of its force structure.