Iran

U.S. Central Command plans to use one-way attack drones based on a copy of the Iranian Shahed-136, and has set up a new task force to deploy them.

Geospatial imagery has become a cornerstone of the international system to monitor nuclear activities, but inspectors are clamoring for better systems to aid their work.

An anti-corruption unit in Madagascar says it has detained 22 people in connection with the smuggling of five Boeing 777-200s that were flown into Iran in July.

Laser-guided rockets help the U.S. Air Force down drones cheaply, though pilots say it is not as easy as it looks.

Iran's foreign minister is being sued by Bell Textron over a little-known dispute over helicopter storage fees dating back to the Iranian Revolution of the late 1970s.

Iran has conducted a suborbital Qased launch in what may have been intended as a show of capability after the country’s 12-day conflict with Israel.

Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin has told Aviation Week what the U.S. Air Force learned from the unprecedented strikes by seven B-2s on Iranian targets in June.

A U.S.-made copy of Iran’s Shahed loitering munition highlighted a display of 18 drones and loitering munitions at the Pentagon.

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

For the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the U.S. Air Force, devoting the time and money to build an effective bunker-buster bomb is challenging.

Participants in the annual Turkish-led Anatolian Eagle exercises trained as the exercise adapts to a new era of high-intensity warfighting.

Israel has provided more details on its operations against Iran, including more than 500 strikes and interdictions attributed to what it calls its UAV Array.

Israel’s 12-day operation against Iran provided a master class in gaining control of an adversary’s airspace and, with U.S. help, what can be done afterwards.

The U.S. strikes on Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Enrichment facility were 15 years in the making.

An accurate assessment of the performance of the Boeing GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator in its combat debut in Iran could take several days to complete.

The U.S. followed Israel in striking Iranian nuclear infrastructure, launching the largest B-2 raid ever and dropping its biggest conventional bombs. Listen as editors assess the operation in Iran.

El Al Israel Airlines plans to gradually restore full flight operations to and from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport following the reopening of Israeli airspace.

The exchange of military strikes between the U.S. and Iran has triggered a rapidly evolving series of commercial airline operational changes in the region.

Iran targeted the largest American base in the Middle East with ballistic missiles in reprisal for U.S. attacks on its nuclear facilities over the weekend.

The debut of the Dynetics/Boeing GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator in Iran now offers the ultimate operational test for a unique and still mysterious weapon.

The U.S. used almost all operational Northrop Grumman B-2 bombers and more than half of its GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators in striking Iran.

The U.S. joined Israel striking Iranian nuclear facilities, using Northrop Grumman B-2 bombers that employed the U.S. Air Force's largest conventional bomb.

In its attacks on Iran, Israel teaches a master class on gaining air superiority.

Listen in as editors at the Paris Air Show break down Israel's latest offensive and how that country's defense companies have been walled off here at the show.

Israeli air strikes have taken out about one-third of Iran’s ballistic missile launcher capacity.