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Lockheed Martin's upgraded T-50A jet trainer successfully completed its first flight test.

Boeing's KC-46 tanker program will miss a major contractual deadline to deliver 18 ready-to-go aircraft to the US Air Force next year.

Despite concern that aircraft modernization will fall through the cracks in a tight budget environment, all four defense congressional committees are urging the Air Force to accelerate the effort to recapitalize its aging ground surveill

The military’s top weapons tester has been warning for months that the F-35 will not be ready for its final test phase until 2018 at the earliest. On Tuesday, the Pentagon officially acknowledged the schedule slip.

Although Air Force and industry officials have repeatedly dubbed reviving Lockheed Martin’s F-22 production line a nonstarter, the service’s outgoing chief of staff said today it might not be such a crazy idea after all.

The idea of an F-22 revival could actually be gaining traction this year in Congress.

The Pentagon’s annual bomber spending spike is driven primarily by the updated cost estimate to design and build the B-21.

The Pentagon officially acknowledged the F-35 won't be ready for its final major test stage until 2018 at the earliest.

As the Air Force prepares to declare its F-35A jets operational in just a few short months, the service is still working through software glitches that cause the jets systems to fail and need to be rebooted – sometimes mid-flight.

The Netherlands' first two F-35s arrive at Leeuwarden Air Base, marking fifth-generation jet's first eastbound transatlantic crossing.

The US Air Force will not be able to afford the fighter aircraft it needs after 2021 if the service’s current budget topline doesn’t change, according to the Pentagon’s latest 30-year aviation report.

Boeing met with a Danish parliamentary committee to say that the recommendation to buy 27 F-35s to replace its aging F-16 fighter fleet was based on “incomplete and possibly flawed data.

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