Japan has programmed the acquisition of a further 105 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings, including F-35Bs for operation from converted helicopter carriers.

A national security meeting of Japan’s ruling party has called for the acquisition of shipboard fighters capable of short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL).

A U.S. startup developing a single-person hybrid-electric multicopter is looking at potential military applications as a logistic or soldier transport.

The approval ends a 16-month delay to the start of the stealthy fighter's formal initial operational test and evaluation program.

F-35 maker Lockheed Martin has cut the cost of the “full-mission simulator” used to train pilots on the fifth-gen fighter by 25% per simulator since 2012.

The Avic Advanced Heavy Lifter (AHL) helicopter has grown again, to the point that it is now 40% heavier than when first described nine years ago.

Pictures of a Kamov design for an advanced attack helicopter have appeared on a Russian website.

Procurement officials say the potential acquisition would sustain the UK rotary-wing heavy capability.