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Boeing's big win has wide-ranging impacts that go far beyond the USAF's need for a new trainer alone.

It is the first total-loss crash involving an F-35.

The deal has a fixed price, but it also includes a mechanism for purchasing additional aircraft and simulators.

The victory is Boeing's third major US military aircraft contract less than two months.

The debut combat missions for American Joint Strike Fighters came after the same jets conducted armed reconnaissance patrols near Somalia.

The T-X tender is largest tactical jet offering on the horizon. Whoever takes the prize gets billions of dollars in or revenue for decades.

Tests of a new individual flying platform will wrap up soon, but the system is still limited in how long it can stay in the air.

Now the jets may be preparing for the first-ever American Joint Strike Fighter strikes in Afghanistan.

The Marines are looking at the design as part of their own multi-role drone program, but it could be appealing to other services, as well.

The older vehicles are set to serve through at least 2030, but will now do so without the improvements the design sorely needs.

Partnered with Italian defense contractor Leonardo, the company was the only one to offer a chopper that's not already in U.S. military service.

If the missiles actually arrive and stay, they would represent a clear escalation, but Israel won't stop its strikes because of them.

The new Beast has finally arrived and its first mission is to move the President around New York for the U.N. General Assembly.

The badly needed airframes will begin arriving in Canada in the Summer of 2019 if everything goes as planned.

We can talk about hypersonic weapons, submarines, geopolitics, APCs, strategy—you know, no big whoop.

The payload adapter on the balloon contains shapes that match the hypersonic glide vehicle configurations China has shown off in the past.

The optionally manned, medium-altitude, long-endurance surveillance plane is meant to be quiet, which explains its strange acoustic signature.

It might not be a hypothetical question for long now that Congress has asked the US military to develop anti-missile defenses in space.

America's most capable and complex combat aircraft are beginning to operate from new, untraditional locales with minimal support.

The Air Force knows it needs tankers that can survive in high-risk areas and it might end up flying a mix of manned and unmanned types.