NASA already is learning about distributed electric propulsion from a unique low-cost testbed, as it completes high-power static tests ahead of low-speed taxi trials leading to high-speed runs on the dry lakebed at Edwards AFB, California, in January.

There shouldn’t be much doubt that the F-35 program is making progress, but the larger questions remain.

In an unprecedented move, Israeli defense procurement panel rejects defense minister’s decision to buy 31 more F-35As.

NATO might be calling on its members to raise their defense spending, but if the alliance’s airborne early warning program is anything to go by, that message maybe falling on deaf ears.

Upper ranks of the Chinese government have decided to split off the collection of factories and design institutes known as Avic Engine, say industry officials in China. The future of a separate subsidiary that is struggling to build a competitive civil turbofan, Avic Commercial Aircraft Engines (ACAE), is unconfirmed, but the unit must face a large risk of being folded into the mainstream aviation propulsion group, losing funding and priority.

USAF Test Pilot School involves students in testing Auto ACAS collision avoidance system, providing benefits for all parties involved in the process.

A 20-year convention has been signed between the French state and the Marcel Dassault family industrial group (GIMD) to ensure that they maintain control of the aircraft group that makes the Rafale combat aircraft, the Neuron RPAS (remotely piloted air system) and the Falcon civilian business jets.

Aviation Week Senior Editor Guy Norris takes us on a test flight of the automatic air collision avoidance system, auto ACAS, with the U.S. Air Force 416th Flight-Test Sqdn.