Boeing F/A-18

The U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps have agreed to work together on developing collaborative combat aircraft by standardizing multiple system components.

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have seen their rates of series aircraft incidents decrease but the cost for each mishap has risen significantly.

A U.S. Marine Corps pilot died when a Boeing F/A-18D crashed near Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, late Aug. 24.

The capital investments by Boeing are supporting the company's "future franchise" programs, which possibly include the Next Generation Air Dominance program.

Next-generation fighters will be available when Australia searches for a replacement for a squadron of Boeing F/A-18E/Fs in the mid-2030s.

Raytheon has filed two pre-award protests against the Dual Band Decoy program since May 12 with the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

The announced selection by the Indian Navy of a French fighter is another blow to the future of Boeing’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet assembly line in St. Louis.

The new plan means the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II is no longer guaranteed to win a follow-on order.

Aerostructures and parts provider GKN Aerospace plans to close its manufacturing facility in the St. Louis area by the end of 2024.

Aerospace and defense metals specialist IBC Advanced Alloys warned on May 18 that it faced a debt payment crunch.

General Javier Salto Martínez-Avial, chief of the Spanish Air Force, says securing a further top-up order of Eurofighters is among his top priorities for 2023.

Strategy of denial also focuses on cyber, space and anti-access, aerial-denial weaponry.

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.

Australia can buy up to 63 Northrop Grumman-built, long-range anti-radiation missiles worth up to $506 million, the U.S. government announced on Feb. 27.

Although Hornet production is forecast to end in 3-5 years, Boeing officials seem confident that a new generation of fighter production soon will begin.

Boeing is forging ahead with the company’s long-standing bid to sell Block III Super Hornet fighters to the Indian Navy.

Tests were carried out by the naval version of the indigenous HAL Light Combat Aircraft Tejas (N-LCA) and a Mikoyan MiG-29K.

Spain is set to acquire additional Eurofighters and an unnamed fifth-generation fighter–likely the F-35–as part of a new program.

Switzerland has completed a series of avionics upgrades for its McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornets.

The recent Exercise Varuna with India addresses French security concerns and showcases Rafale fighters to the Indian Navy.

All deliveries from the sole-source contract are expected to be completed within two years of the award of an $87 million, sole-source contract.

The survey proposes to save the Navy billions of dollars that would be otherwise spent on qualifying a trainer jet to land aboard an aircraft carrier.

The contractual agreement enables Canada to order the first four F-35As for delivery in 2026 in the Lot 18 production standard, with 84 more delivered by 2034.

Despite some discrepancies in the details, Top Gun: Maverick highlights one of the biggest challenges in modern air combat.

Sweden is proposing to replace Finland’s F/A-18 Hornets on a virtual one-for-one basis by offering 64 Gripen fighters for Helsinki’s €9 billion ($10.9 billion) HX fighter requirement.