High-energy lasers are having an overdue moment. The Pentagon plans to procure them soon for the Army and the Navy and demonstrate a 1-megawatt-class laser capable of downing ballistic and hypersonic ...

COLUMBIA — Shad Sones, the general manager of BlackHawk Aerospace in Columbia, says he couldn't believe it when he saw the news of the technology, he and his team worked on potentially saving lives.

DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. The DARPA ...

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One of the first Massachusetts companies expected to go public this year is named for an aircraft engine that powered Britain’s best fighters and bombers during World War II. Boston-based Merlin Labs ...

Military aviation has always advanced through moments of disruption, when a new aircraft arrives that changes the rules faster than pilots can adapt. Throughout history, certain machines proved so ...

The Boeing Everett Factory offers a popular public tour of the world's largest airplane manufacturing plant, where visitors can witness the "herculean effort" of building widebody jets. The tour ...

The Utah Department of Transportation was selected to lead a federal pilot program. The three-year Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) Integration Pilot Program will test electric aircraft ...

India is deepening one of its most important defense partnerships, turning to Israeli firms for aircraft, sensors, and weapons that now sit at the center of several major modernization efforts. Over ...