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U.S. budget documents released on April 21 reveal that the U.S. Navy plans to buy 4,500 air-launched hypersonic missiles for Boeing F/A-18E/Fs over the next five years.

AeroVironment says its Locust laser weapon to counter drones has undergone naval trials.

Honeywell will transfer F124 jet engine assembly permanently to Phoenix from Taiwan.

The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman are exploring a future radar mission upgrade for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye as the current Block II modernization effort prepares to ramp up.

Boeing demonstrated a turbojet-powered GBU-75 Joint Direct Attack Munition Long Range (JDAM-LR) for the U.S. Navy in early April.

One of the two companies vying for the F/A-XX contract lacks the capacity to deliver the fighter on time, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle says.

The U.S. Navy is gearing up for the first procurement of dual-band decoys for Boeing F/A-18E/Fs to boost the fighter’s self-protection capability.

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A funding boost allows the U.S. Missile Defense Agency to accelerate the Glide Phase Interceptor program from 2035 to 2031.

The U.S. Navy’s decision to forgo carrier landings and set a price limit underscores the service’s urgency to field its next trainer.

As a long-awaited contract award for the F/A-XX program looms, budget and technical challenges still await for the Navy’s next carrier-based fighter.

The BGM-109 Tomahawk still has a long future in the U.S. Navy’s procurement budget, but it could have company.

The U.S. Navy on Feb. 27 conducted the first flight test of a new precision landing mode for the military’s Sikorsky H-60 variants.

The U.S. Navy has set an aggressive timeline and cost goal for its next-generation trainer.

The U.S. Navy plans to buy up to 6,000 Leonardo BriteCloud active expendable decoys to protect its F-35, F/A-18 and other aircraft fleets in an increase of previously detailed plans.

Regime change has long been considered a boots-on-the-ground operation. Now the U.S. and Israel are trying to do it from the sky.

Boost-phase missile defense challenges the historic model for space-based interceptors, but a startup is proposing a possible thrust-based solution.

U.S. Air Force officials started looking for alternatives to the service’s next-generation anti-radiation missile on March 4.

The U.S. Air Force will in the coming months finalize requirements for how it will take on the airborne nuclear command post mission.

A nearly $50 million contract award from the U.S. Navy will field an early version of the low-cost Blackbeard missile by November 2027.

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

The U.S. Navy on Feb. 19 announced it had cleared the GBU-53/B Stormbreaker Small Diameter Bomb Increment II for initial operational capability.

U.S. Navy officials started shopping on Feb. 19 for an air-launched, long-range, anti-radiation missile that can be acquired in the hundreds every year.

General Atomics is hoping to build U.S. Navy interest in its MQ-9B SkyGuardian uncrewed aircraft system through an upcoming leasing program with the service.

High-speed aircraft developer Hermeus has begun taxi tests of its Pratt & Whitney F100-229-powered Quarterhorse Mk. 2.1 supersonic flight demonstrator.