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Wired
July 2001
Carl Hoffman |
The X Wars Boeing and Lockheed are battling head-to-head to build the strike fighter of the future, a sleek, smart aircraft that will carry tomorrow's Air Force, Navy, and Marines -- if it can fight its way out of the Pentagon...   |
National Defense
September 2014
Dan Parsons |
Fifth-Generation Fighters Will Determine Air Dominance in Future Conflicts The Raptor is the only combat-ready fifth-generation fighter in the world. Its thrust-vectoring engines, sensor fusion technology and stealth are what define it as a generational leap from previous fighter designs. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2002
Jim Wilson |
Flexible Flier The Joint Strike Fighter puts the best of every 20th century warplane into one nimble and stealthy package... |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2006
Rich Smith |
Red Storm Landing It's the end of an era at Lockheed as the F-117 Nighthawk gets put out to pasture. Investors will just have to hope that Lockheed can make up the lost Nighthawk profits on bigger Raptor and Lightning II production runs. |
National Defense
April 2015
Sandra I. Erwin |
Budget Fight: Big-Ticket Weapons Square Off In these times of tight military budgets, there is no shortage of conspiracy theories surrounding the future of big-ticket weapon systems. |
National Defense
September 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Budget Pressures Seen as Biggest Risk to Long Range Bomber Program The Air Force is setting out to do something it hasn't done in more than two decades: acquire a heavy bomber. To do so, the service will have to avoid some of the pitfalls of the past, and keep funding flowing to the program despite budget pressures, analysts said. |
BusinessWeek
June 2, 2011
David Lerman |
The High Cost of Waging War on Rust The Pentagon is enlisting defense contractors in the battle against corrosion and is helping fund specialized training for engineers. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
How UAVs Will Replace the Air Force's Current Fleet The Air Force Research Laboratory is spending $49 million over the next four years to create a system that will allow UAVs to autonomously refuel in the air. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2008
Rich Smith |
F-117 Fades to Black The U.S. Air Force will hold a "retirement party" for its groundbreaking F-117 Nighthawk fighter jet in April. |
National Defense
September 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Navy Program at Center of Drone Survivability Debate The Navy's unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike (UCLASS) aircraft, still in the early stages of development, also has long-term requirements to carry out missions deep in an adversary's territory. |
National Defense
June 2015
Sandra I. Erwin |
Northrop Grumman Aims To Retain Grip on Aviation Northrop Grumman Corp. makes a big play to join the ranks of Lockheed Martin and Boeing as one of the nation's top manufacturers of combat aircraft. |
National Defense
July 2011
Eric Beidel |
Efforts Under Way to Harden Unpiloted Aircraft for Contested Airspace Military leaders are beginning to wonder how Predators, Reapers, Hunters, Shadows and the rest will perform in unfriendly skies. |
BusinessWeek
May 15, 2006
Eamon Javers |
Stealth Spending At The Pentagon How the Air Force is keeping the costs of expensive new fighter jets under the radar. |
Popular Mechanics
November 11, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
The 6 Most Lethal Aircraft in History Aviation experts and warplane veterans take a look at the history of single-engine planes, fighters, bombers and attack helicopters and pick six of the most lethal fliers in the past 100 years. |
BusinessWeek
October 29, 2009 |
Reforming the Weapons Budget White House efforts to curtail military spending have had mixed results. Here are some examples. |
National Defense
September 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Top Secret Air Force Bomber Program Moves Forward Air Force officials over the past few years have been happy to talk publicly about how much they need a new long-range strike bomber, but have given it a "secret" classification and share few other details. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2006
Noah Shachtman |
The Great Weapons Debate The Pentagon wants to deploy a host of exotic new weapons systems. Critics say too much of this costly hardware is designed to fight the wrong war. |
Popular Mechanics
July 1, 2009
Linda Yin |
The Once and Future Warplane: Bomber Tech Picture Gallery For almost a century, military bombers have played a significant role in turning the tides of world wars. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2005
Ben Ames |
Digital receivers power a new generation of electronic warfare Military technology designers have shifted from analog to digital radar receivers to deal with decentralized threats. The change is a major improvement for size, weight, and power. |
National Defense
July 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Navy Awaits Arrival of Powerful New Radar-Equipped Aircraft The Navy's new E-2D Advanced Hawkeye surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft has a powerful new radar. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
3 Questions for a Real F-35 Test Pilot Test pilot Jon Beesley has ridden in history's cockpit. Having flown in the development phase of every operational U.S. stealth aircraft. |
National Defense
December 2015
Stew Magnuson |
New Bomber Will Be Boon For U.S. Aerospace Industry Despite the cloud of pessimism surrounding the program's prospects, the contract award -- worth an estimated $80 billion in 2010 dollars -- will be a shot in the arm for the U.S. aerospace industry |
National Defense
September 2013
Dan Parsons |
Prime Contractors Chasing Big Business Retooling Old Fighters For the United States and its allies, the F-16 has proven time and again to be the perfect all-around, multi-mission fighter aircraft, and with ongoing delays in developing a revolutionary new plane, air forces are preparing to keep it flying for decades to come. |
Popular Mechanics
December 28, 2009
Michael Belfiore |
The Top 9 Airplane Tech Advances of the Last 10 Years The past decade has seen enhancements in everything from cargo planes to hypersonics. |
National Defense
July 2008
Grace V. Jean |
F-35 factory: One aircraft per day by 2016 Inside a manufacturing facility so large that workers routinely bike and ride golf carts down paths named after fighter jets, preparations are underway to begin mass production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. |
National Defense
October 2010
Eric Beidel |
Uncertainty, Challenges Mark Future For Military's Unpiloted Aircraft The use of unmanned aerial systems in Iraq and Afghanistan has shown that they are invaluable in uncontested airspace. But questions remain about how the current generation of U.S. drones would fair in unfriendly skies. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
The Future For UAVs in the U.S. Air Force The next-generation aircraft envisioned by the Air Force, and modeled in the illustration opposite, would be able to dodge enemy radar, swap payloads for multiple kinds of missions and use sophisticated onboard sensors to prevent collisions with other UAVs and manned airplanes. |
The Motley Fool
September 19, 2011
Abantika Chatterjee |
Lockheed's Japan Contract Bonanza A $4 billion contract to supply 40 fighter jets to Japan should make investors salivate. |
Popular Mechanics
July 24, 2009
Linda Yin |
Inside the Battle for India's Warplane Dollars: Gallery The Indian military is seeking 126 jets that can dogfight and drop bombs, and defense officials there announced that they will begin a year-long series of field trials in August. |
BusinessWeek
February 24, 2011 |
Clipped Wings Defense contractors are trying to fend off liberal Democrats, conservative Republicans, and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, all looking for savings in the Pentagon's budget. Here are the programs already on the chopping block. |
National Defense
January 2015
Sandra I. Erwin |
Military Challenged to Maintain Decades-Old Aircraft The U.S. military operates fleets of Cold War-era aircraft that will not be replaced any time soon. For the Pentagon, this creates daunting challenges, experts warn. Airplanes will have to fly much longer than planned and, at a time of tight budgets, the cost of maintaining aging equipment is projected to soar. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2001
Malcolm V. Lowe |
Russia's Radical New Fighter Russia's fabled Sukhoi Design Bureau builds the S-37, a 21st century fighter to go head-to-head with our F-22... |
Defense Update
Issue 4, 2004 |
Modern Bombers Applications for Conventional Warfare Future bombers could be an evolution of current platforms, including a modification of the F/A-22 stealth fighter. |
National Defense
August 2004
Harold Kennedy |
Air Force Strives to Cope With Delayed Tanker Lease U.S. Air Force officials are trying to figure out how to proceed in the aftermath of the Defense Secretary's decision to postpone the leasing 100 Boeing KC-767A tanker transport aircraft as replacements for its aging KC-135 Stratotankers. |
Defense Update
July 2008 |
Raptor Displays Super Aerodynamics at Farnborough 2008 In a breathtaking demonstration of aerodynamics and power, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor air dominance fighter claimed an uncontested position as a 'superfighter'. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2006
Jeff Wise |
Flying Off The Drawing Board New technology is poised to transform aviation, finally making Personal Air Vehicles possible. |
National Defense
January 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Aging Aircraft, War Costs Weigh Heavily in Future Budgets The Senate Appropriations Committee staffer acknowledged the conundrum the Air Force is facing. |
Popular Mechanics
September 29, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
The Air Force's 4 Biggest Fears In the near future, every part of a USAF mission could be compromised by a foreign military using sophisticated gear or a guerrilla force employing clever strategies. Threats aren't standing still. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2009
Patton et al. |
6 Top-Secret Aircraft that are Mistaken for UFOs Spy and stealth planes -- some with bizarre, bat-shaped wings, others with triangular silhouettes that imply otherworldly designs -- have long generated UFO sightings and lore. |
Popular Mechanics
January 23, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Pentagon Turns to Engineers for Troop Transport Fix in Iraq: Analysis (With 6 Next-Gen Chopper Designs!) The Army and Air Force will seek Pentagon approval for the development of new aircraft that can carry big loads and land on poorly built, short runways -- or no runways at all. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2009
Rich Smith |
Pentagon Unveils Crystal Ball Defense Secretary Gates says that the military needs to start preparing for "the wars we are most likely to fight -- not just the wars we're best suited to fight." Which companies stand to benefit from this? |
The Motley Fool
May 20, 2011
Rich Smith |
Could Boeing Win this Dogfight? The more we learn about the F-35's performance, the less I think we can count Boeing out. |
National Defense
March 2012
Dan Parsons |
Air Force Trades Quantity For Quality The Air Force will cut airmen and ditch some underperforming and unwanted aircraft, focusing instead on purchasing fewer but more capable new models in order to bridge a years-long investment gap, officials said. |
National Defense
November 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Department Should Refocus Technology Spending, Experts Warn Investments in technology tend to miss the mark and do little to enhance the United States' competitive standing as a high-tech powerhouse, said Pentagon advisors and outside analysts. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
Susan Karlin |
James Brown: Above & Beyond This experimental test pilots are aviators trained in engineering and can convey problems and improvements for plane development. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Barbara S. Peterson |
End of Flight Delays? FAA's GPS Fix Could Bust Sky Gridlock The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been quietly using Alaska as a testbed for technologies that could radically transform the nation's antiquated air traffic control (ATC) system from ground-based radar to space-based GPS. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2011
Rich Smith |
U-2's Farewell Tour Not the group. The plane. U-2's farewell is the end of one era and the beginning of a new one -- with new opportunities for investors. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Anthony Colozza |
Fly Like A Bird Flapping wings could revolutionize aircraft design. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2, 2008
David Noland |
Could One Email Have Stopped a $1.4B Stealth Bomber Crash? The spectacular crash of a B-2 stealth bomber in February could have been prevented by a simple, unofficial "bootleg" maintenance procedure that some ground crews have used for years. |
National Defense
December 2003
Sandra I. Erwin |
Anti-Missile Program for Airliners on a Fast Track Under pressure from Congress to deploy anti-missile systems rapidly on commercial airliners, the Department of Homeland Security is expected to award multiple contracts by year's end. |
