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The F-35A excelled at the Red Flag exercises at Nellis AFB this year, leaving advocates of traditional fighter aircraft design and performance shaking their heads.

The difference is we have learned how to fly the jet… and better understand where its advantages are.

Now, it turns out that the system used to capture jets landing on the USS Gerald R. Ford ballooned in cost, tripling to $961 million from $301 million, according to …

Its electric motor enables it to loiter silently above a target, ready to instantly respond to pop-up threats.

Air Force and Northrop Grumman engineers are building the new B-21 Stealth Bomber with a mind to being able to elude enemy air defenses well into the 2030s, 2040s – …

Instead of lugging around 30-pound counter-drone equipment, some security forces airmen will soon have a 5-pound device they can use to jam weaponized drones from the enemy.

Navy pilots have reported 461 physiological episodes in F/A-18 fighter jets and T-45 trainer aircraft since May of 2010 — an average of more than one every six days, Navy …

Boeing has been awarded an $89 million Navy contract for the Block II Infrared Search and Track System, or IRST, in the F/A-18 E/F.

fter a week of analyzing recent physiological incidents involving F-35A pilots at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, a team of engineers and medical personnel have not been able to identify …

In early 2019, the Army will field 500 JLTVs to an infantry brigade combat team with the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York.

(Military Times) A Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet shot down a Syrian SU-22 on Sunday, giving the U.S. military its first air-to-air kill since 1999.

Starting with 4th image: Note conformal fuel tanks, ventral enclosed weapons pod, no obvious hard points on wings.

Super Hornet Block III differs from the earlier proposed Advanced Super Hornet in that Boeing is no longer focused on improving the fighter’s stealth capability relative to the F-35’s.

The Navy sees a role for both in high-intensity, high-tech, high-end warfare against the thick anti-aircraft defenses known as Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD).

The industry has downsized to two major players — Orbital ATK and Aerojet Rocketdyne — Vice Adm. Terry Benedict said June 2 at an Air Force Association breakfast in Washington, …

The Air Force’s combat rescue helicopter program recently passed a critical design review, paving the way for the program to proceed to an assembly, test and evaluation phase, its prime …

Future hypersonic weapons engagements will present scant warning cues to platforms, and will be delivered so fast that traditional man-in–the-loop responses will be unable to cope.

The work on PAK FA is now at the final stage, and this year we receive the 10th and the 11th planes, which will be tested, and in the future …

The first F-35A stealth fighter assembled in Japan was unveiled Monday at a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries factory in Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture.

Lockheed Martin’s U-2 spy plane made its debut at the Northern Edge joint training exercise last month, demonstrating a new capability nicknamed the “Einstein Box” that, among other things, enables …

The vast majority of the list — unfunded weapons, equipment, infrastructure and development activities the Marine Corps wants for fiscal 2018 that weren’t included in its budget proposal last month …

The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Naval Surface Warfare Command (NAVSEA) Panama City, Florida, division have developed a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to increase diver survivability and limit …

One of the modifications involves applying a product called Mighty Tough Boot to the aircraft, which fills gaps on the surface of an F-22 that could cause the aircraft to …

In his final interview in uniform, Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, USAF, program executive officer for the F-35 Lighting II Fighter, provides a status report on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter …

Warships of the future could be built from ultra-strong plastic and graphene, armed with weapons that fire at the speed of light and operated by crews a fraction of the …

The Navy’s top officer said he’s looking for ways to build the service to a strength equivalent to 355 ships by the mid-2020s.

Textron developed the munition to answer the call for a precision-guided weapon small enough to load higher quantities on unmanned aircraft systems like the Gray Eagle and the Shadow and …

SOCOM wants to move beyond the traditional wetsuit/drysuit paradigm.

The goal is “to build a DRONEWERX equivalent to SOFWERX to really get at, how do we leverage this combination of swarm technology, commercial drone technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, …

The Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter continues to cut its teeth while operating onboard the third U.S. Navy littoral combat ship, or LCS, to go on a rotational …

In the future, winning or losing will depend on how fast young military minds can develop software and leverage artificial intelligence.

The upgrade, which the company is calling the F135 Growth Option 1.0, could be cut into the existing production line by the early 2020s, said Matthew Bromberg, president of Pratt …

The Navy accepted delivery of the submarine after it received the highest score to date of a Virginia-class sub during its Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) trials earlier this …

The Navy has reached a tentative agreement with Huntington Ingalls Industries for the shipbuilder to build the first Flight III Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyer (DDG-51) in its Mississippi yard, the …

Video interview at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington after Moore spoke at “The Navy’s Maintenance Challenge: Resetting the Fleet.”

Cyber Command, while still a relatively infant organization with its mission force not yet fully operationally capable, is reassessing capabilities and concepts as operations and threat actors evolve in a …

Radio frequency signals don’t propagate well in the sea.

Boeing has received a $86.3 million modification to an existing contract to design, develop and install upgrades for both software and hardware on the F/A-18 series of aircraft.

The new aircraft, engineered to succeed the 5th-generation F-35 Joint StrikeFighter and explode onto the scene by the mid 2030s, is now in the earliest stages of conceptual development with …

The Marine Corps received the first low-rate initial production AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) system.