Lockheed Martin F-35

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps want to maintain production of the Lockheed Martin F-35B and F-35C at a steady rate over the next five years.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is focusing heavily on maritime strike as it looks toward the Pacific with a need for munitions.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force wants to increase its buy of Boeing F-15EXs above what was previously planned.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force will not go ahead with a full engine replacement for its Lockheed Martin F-35A.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Next-Generation Air Dominance to be approximately a one-for-one F-22 replacement, bolstered by collaborative combat aircraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The Air National Guard has increased the numbers of F-15s it flies, and keeping them in the air has taken creative fleet management and intensive maintenance.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force recently deployed F-22s to a tiny, bare base in the Pacific for the first in a significant demonstration of its new agile operating concept.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
President Joe Biden is proposing a 3.2% jump in Pentagon spending, allocating $842 billion for fiscal 2024.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has laid out an operating plan for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, the uncrewed loyal wingman systems it plans to fly alongside fighters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The F-35 Joint Program Office suspended F-35 deliveries and halted production flight operations after the Dec. 15 crash of a Lockheed-owned F-35B.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The contractual milestone ends a four-year negotiating process with the F-35 Joint Program Office as the U.S. Air Force evaluates a replacement engine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
The F-35 Joint Program Office has issued a directive recommending that all Pratt & Whitney F135 engines be retrofitted within 90 days.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The latest set of Joint Strike Fighters is due to arrive during an important phase in the service’s modernization plans.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
"So as the test progresses, that’ll really inform if we have any issues associated with TR-3,” Lockheed Martin's Greg Ulmer tells Aerospace DAILY.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A decades-old concept for a ubiquitous battlefield network concept is starting to become reality.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Guy Norris
Pratt & Whitney says it has developed an “immediate resolution” to the F135 engine problem that caused the crash of a Lockheed Martin F-35B.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A top Boeing executive says he “hopes” the F-15EX fighter fills a need for longer-range tactical aircraft in the Royal Australian Air Force fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
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.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
What is the “Voodoo II”? And why does the Voodoo II project’s special patch say “Two-0-Thunder”?
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The decision means Singapore's future Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II fleet will number a confirmed 12 aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

Readers write about sending F-16s to Ukraine, the F-35’s challenges and electric propulsion for military vehicles.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Steve Trimble
The Electronically-Scanned Multifunction Reconfigurable Integrated Sensor is being developed to perform the functions of a radar, jammer and data link.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
Red Flag, the service’s most important combat training event, shifts to overwater for the first time in its 48-year history.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The United Arab Emirates is understood to have gone through with a controversial deal to buy Chinese advanced jet trainers.
Light Attack and Advanced Training