Military

The U.S. Navy is upgrading and expanding undersea training ranges used in anti-submarine warfare training for its air, surface, and submarine forces, the service announced. The Undersea Warfare Training Ranges (USWTR) include an expansive network of about 600 miles of undersea cables and acoustic sensors that provides a realistic training environment for tracking targets on […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $750,000 research contract to Exosonic for a supersonic uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) demonstrator, the aerospace company announced Wednesday. The technology will be the first purpose-built supersonic UAV developed to aid the Air Force in training pilots, at a time when the service faces challenges stemming from pilot shortages, […]

The remains of five sailors who died when their MH-60S Seahawk crashed into the ocean in late August have been recovered, the U.S. Navy announced Tuesday. The MH-60S Seahawk, which was aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, crashed into ocean waters while conducting a routine flight operation about 60 nautical miles off the coast of San […]

The U.S. military’s UH-72 Lakota helicopter fleet has racked up more than 1 million flight hours, according to Airbus. The million-hour milestone has been accrued by U.S. Army, Navy, and National Guard pilots since 2006, when the Army selected the UH-72A as its new light utility helicopter. Since that time, Airbus has delivered 463 of […]

Smartwing technology from Tamarack Aerospace so far has remained focus on the Cessna Citation 525 series—until now. At the National Business Aviation Association’s Business Aviation Conference & Expo (NBAA-BACE), Tamarack’s founder and CEO Nick Guida gave FLYING a preview of the company’s latest project—a Beechcraft King Air 200 modified with its active winglet technology. The […]

Defense officials have awarded 18 university-led research projects $25.5 million in contracts aimed at boosting hypersonic technology development, the Department of Defense announced this week. The contracts, which are set to be distributed over three years, were awarded by DOD through the University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH) to research teams that also include 15 […]

The U.S. Navy has received its first new-production Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet for testing, Naval Air Systems Command announced this week. The upgraded Navy fighter aircraft is the first of 78 Boeing-built Block III Super Hornets set to be delivered through the mid-2030s. Among the features included in the jet is an advanced cockpit […]

U.S. military cargo aircraft are one step closer to delivering long-range strike weapons en masse, according to an announcement by the U.S. Air Force. The announcement comes after a demonstration Wednesday of a new Air Force rapid development program which aims to turn mobility aircraft into bombers. The program, called Rapid Dragon, involved Boeing C-17 […]

Future U.S. Air Force combat readiness will rely on a streamlined fleet of four fighter aircraft platforms, a top USAF commander said Wednesday. The retooling of the USAF aircraft fleet comes as the service looks to reposition for potential conflict with China, which it says is actively seeking to exploit limitations created by European basing […]

An investigation is underway after a military training flight crash in a north Texas neighborhood Sunday that left two pilots injured—one severely—and multiple homes damaged, according to military officials. The crash prompted a command-wide safety stand down of the Navy T-45C Goshawk jet trainer aircraft amid the military probe into the cause of the crash. […]