Aviation Week & Space Technology

Finland wants a multirole fighter and ground-based air defenses to replace its F/A-18 Hornet fleet.

A pair of new histories reveals little-known details about the interaction of the U.S. space program and the civil rights movement in the South.

Lasers, microwave weapons and railguns have flopped before. Here are some ways to stop that from happening again.

Volatile commodity prices and currency exchange rates threaten the defense spending outlook, but there are positive flip sides for governments and defense contractors alike.

Aircraft carrier arrangement becomes another casualty of Ukraine incursion.

Climate changes are making the northern reaches of greater economic and strategic interest, but the U.S. military has a long way to catch up to the Russians and other nations.

Berkshire Hathaway’s bid to acquire Precision Castparts and Google’s restructuring are among the developments discussed by Aviation Week's editors.

Marines eye improvements in maintenance and multiship functionality for operational F-35Bs, but other nations wait for more robust versions.

NASA has chosen Lunar IceCube for inclusion of secondary smallsat payloads on the the multibillion-dollar SLS-Orion test flight, which could provide potential encouragement for researchers to push deeper into space using CubeSat technologies.

At perihelion, the ESA mission will be able to glimpse the effect of that approach on the comet’s surface.

NASA funds further study of a propulsion system that could dramatically reduce the time required to explore the outer reaches of the Solar System and beyond.

The Australian carrier sees huge growth potential in Asian markets but is having trouble getting its expansion plans approved by governments.

A higher cost of capital combined with sustained low fuel prices would make for a very interesting ride in the years ahead.

Severely tested by adverse economics, airlines in Russia are adapting by going leaner.

Online giants are on a mission to enable widespread use of small unmanned aircraft, with private sector organizations—rather than the FAA—managing airspace operations.

Autonomy, beyond-line-of-sight, multiple vehicles per pilot—Olaeris’s plans to deploy emergency-response UAS in cities across the U.S. goes well beyond what the FAA will allow, for now.

U.S. and Japanese researchers pursue different paths to introducing fuel cells into commercial aircraft propulsion systems.

Electric-aircraft challenge winner; NASA’s extreme-access flyers; blast-containing baggage container; TsAGI quiet supersonic idea.

A look at the obstacles that lie ahead for Lockheed Martin’s mammoth F-35 program, how its limitations with dogfighting is leading other militaries to tout maneuverability and how the U.K. is equipping other fighters with weapons that the F-35 can’t yet use. Amy Butler and Tony Osborne also spend a little time discussing this summer’s tanker blues.

​ Wesley D. Kremer (see photo) has been named president of Integrated Defense Systems at Raytheon Co., headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. He succeeds Daniel J. Crowley, who is resigning and will leave on Dec. 31, after completing a special assignment. Kremer was most recently vice president-Air and Missile Defense Systems for Raytheon Missile Systems. Prior to joining Raytheon in 2003, he had been a U.S. Air Force weapon systems officer for 11 years, flying F-111s and F-15Es.

Speculation over Boeing's T-X trainer program; ruminations on the F-35 program; questioning why identification of washed-up flaperon is taking so long.

Industry needs to work together to advance energy storage, conversion and transmission technology if electric-powered airliners are to become a reality, says Airbus CTO.

U.S. airlines are divided as the government weighs whether to start open skies consultations with Qatar and UAE

Lufthansa is trying to persuade the German government that protectionist policies make sense.

The NTSB’s aviation chief says recent accidents show cockpit videos are invaluable in determining crash causes.