Defense Aircraft & Propulsion

Apr 11, 2024
About three years before its first scheduled fielding, the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft fleet has a new group of F-16-based testbed aircraft.
Apr 08, 2024
Startups Isar Aerospace, PLD Space and Rocket Factory Augsburg already have agreed to use the refurbished ELM-Diamant launch complex in Kourou, French Guiana.
Apr 05, 2024
Aviation Week experts dissect recent comments from a Chinese general on the secretive Xian H-20 and look at where the bomber would fit in the PLAAF's structure.
Apr 05, 2024
A new Royal Air Force strategy lays out plans for the introduction of larger systems after having developed small, swarming platforms.
Apr 05, 2024
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
May 20, 2024
Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled a refined concept for a fan-in-wing high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
May 20, 2024
The Singapore Defense Ministry says an F-16's "pitch rate gyroscopes gave erroneous inputs to the flight control computer," causing it to crash in early May.
May 19, 2024
Though the New Shepard capsule returned to the company’s West Texas spaceport with one of its three main parachutes not fully inflating.
May 17, 2024
Italy could join Germany and Spain in making a top-up order for the Eurofighter combat aircraft, industry officials have said.
May 16, 2024
Australia’s new defense strategy includes pricey acquisitions for both the Australian navy and air force, but data from Aviation Week’s Fleet Discovery Military tool suggest that a commensurate increase in aviation-related contract opportunities may not be in the offing.
May 16, 2024
The review assessed the X-59 project’s approach to safety and hazard analysis.
May 16, 2024
Lockheed Martin could potentially park 84 F-35s in temporary storage before receiving approval to resume deliveries with a new software update, the GAO says.
May 16, 2024
Airbus Helicopters test pilots are eagerly awaiting approval to begin higher-speed flights with the company’s Racer compound rotorcraft demonstrator.