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Aug 22, 2017
Completing development in four years might be easy enough if AIDC were just chasing the cockpit and avionics of the F-CK-1. But 80% of the structure is also changing and so are the aerodynamics.
Aug 22, 2017
Billie Flynn, the Lockheed Martin test pilot who flew the F-35A's premiere aerobatic performance at the Paris Air Show, opens up about what it's like to flight test both the F-16 and the Joint Strike Fighter.
Aug 22, 2017
The technology for retrieving powered vehicles in forward flight has remained largely unexplored for decades, since experiments in the 1940s and ’50s.
Aug 18, 2017
In this week’s Washington Outlook, General Atomics is trying to “educate” lawmakers to keep U.S. UAS technology at the forefront; the CBO scores the cost of ATC reform, and GAO sizes up the potential sale of old ICBM motors.
Aug 18, 2017
The U.S. is striving to make its electronic warfare systems agile and flexible to offset advances made by potential adversaries.
Aug 17, 2017
First used in 2013 by British forces in Afghanistan, ultraportable nano-UAVs are growing in capability and applications.
Aug 17, 2017
A new name for Sukhoi’s T-50 fighter; Thailand seeks weapons for new frigate; Bahrain will join the ranks of C-130J-flying nations and Lockheed wins a major special operations logistics contract.
Aug 17, 2017
Traditionally France uses expeditionary forces, while Germany stresses a defensive role and interoperability with NATO.