Military Aviation

Lockheed Martin and the governments of Romania and the Netherlands have signed a letter of intent (LOI) to establish an F-16 pilot training center in Romania. The center will be located at Romania’s 86th “Lieutenant Aviator Gheorghe Mociorniță” Air Base in Borcea, Călărași County. The project is expected to focus on the effectiveness and safety […]

The U.S. Navy has ordered 35 additional CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters from Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky. The contract, which is valued at approximately $2.7 billion, includes 27 aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps and eight for the Israeli air force. Deliveries of the newly ordered CH-53Ks are expected to begin in 2026. “This contract […]

Three U.S. Marines were killed and five were hospitalized in the crash of an MV-22B Osprey during a training exercise in Australia on Sunday. There were 23 Marines aboard the tiltrotor transport when the accident occurred. It happened about 9:30 a.m. local time on Melville Island, near Darwin in the country’s Northern Territory. Circumstances of […]

The Marine Corps has confirmed an F/A-18D fighter crashed at its Miramar Air Station near San Diego late Thursday, killing the pilot. The aircraft went down on federal property east of the developed portion of the base. Rescuers recovered the body of the pilot, who has not been identified, Friday morning The crash happened just […]

Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been confirmed as one of the 10 people aboard an Embraer Legacy business jet that crashed in Russia on Aug. 23. The crash appeared unsurvivable and all the bodies were recovered at the scene, according to the BBC. Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against the Russian armed forces in June […]

Airbus has been awarded a $27.8 million contract by the U.S. Army aimed at expanding the capabilities of the UH-72A Lakota twin-engine utility helicopter. Called the Army National Guard Security and Support Battalion Mission Equipment Package (MEP), the upgrades include an advanced moving map, enhanced digital interfaces, new monitors and an airborne mission management system. […]

The Air Force has awarded aerospace startup JetZero a $235 million contract to build a piloted blended wing aircraft. In an announcement on Wednesday, the Air Force said it wants the full-sized prototype to finish flight testing by the end of 2027. “The effort aims to mature BWB technology and demonstrate its capabilities, giving the […]

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force has officially welcomed a PT-17 to its collection after a ceremonial transfer at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland this week. According to the museum, the aircraft is significant in that it is one of only two PT-17s still in existence that saw use during World War II […]

The Air Force has put artificial intelligence that was trained by machine learning in the pilot seat of a drone and said it did just fine. A government news release said the three-hour flight of the high-performance jet XQ-58A Valkyrie happened July 25 at the Eglin Test and Training Complex and was the culmination of […]

Electronic Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) hopeful Archer Aviation has announced a $142 million contract with the U.S. Air Force to develop a military version of its Midnight “air taxi” aircraft. According to Reuters, Archer stock catapulted by 33 percent after the announcement. California-based Archer successfully completed final assembly of the first Midnight eVTOL in […]