Aviation Week & Space Technology

The UK is adding billions to its defense budget, but spending plans are in flux until the Integrated Review reports.

A decade of research and simulation is transitioning into a flight test series of autonomous aircraft projects in 2021.

Air cargo operators are gearing up to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine while fighting to overcome a capacity shortage.

Major transit hubs have proven to be particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 crisis as connectivity falls apart.

Pinched by COVID-related economic woes, New Delhi is still prepared to buy what it needs to counter border threats in Ladakh.

While Russia’s defense budget is likely to flatten, Putin will maintain his focus on the nation’s strategic forces.

German defense budget is increasing to meet modernization needs, but hurdles to progress remain.

Beyond COVID-19, the new leadership team at the Pentagon will inherit a huge modernization agenda.

The defense budget is likely to reach 2.4% of GDP within two years. Slow naval programs will consume much of the money.

Despite the pandemic, the industry continued to make progress in sustainability, space, aviation safety and more.

The Boeing-Airbus duopoly cannot count on widebody sales anytime soon, so their hope is to get narrowbody production back to normal.

Four and half years since the Brexit referendum and aerospace is no nearer to understanding what the UK’s future trading relationship with its nearest and largest trading partner will look like.

Ask the Editors: China and Russia are not likely to follow in U.S. footsteps and establish separate space force branches within their militaries.

Although the ministry has requested a 3.3% rise, something closer to the 1.5% average of the past eight years is more likely to happen.

Long-haul aviation market has changed since the 777X was launched, increasing pressure on Boeing’s business case.

All four RQ-4s have been delivered and all 40 F-35As will be in 2021. So the 2021 acquisition budget is not rising much.

If the relationship between China’s defense spending and GDP holds, growth in allocations will trend downward in the coming decade.

Gen. John Raymond, the chief of space operations, looks back at the first year of operations for the U.S. Space Force and ahead at what is to come for

Demand trends during the pandemic and recovery should favor LCCs over larger legacy airlines.

A crop of developmental projects are set to come to fruition over the next 12 months as new projects enter the design phase.

A business model that has long had its doubters will be facing tougher competition in the post-pandemic era.

A four-year-old strategy to boost spending levels for defense faces its greatest test in the wake of Canada’s COVID-19 response.

U.S. back in human spaceflight business.

Public trials of SpaceX satellite broadband service are underway.

Ask the Editors: Aviation will see less demand due to COVID-19, so the introduction of long-haul narrowbodies is unlikely to gain steam.