Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, Brian covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times. Over a decade as a defense journalist, he has reported from dozens of bases at home and abroad, including austere airstrips in Afghanistan, the cockpit of a B-52 over the South Pacific and the boom operator station of a KC-46. Before the military beat, Brian covered the Washington state legislature for the Associated Press.
The U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift program has flown dozens of firsts over the last several weeks with a UH-60 Black Hawk “surrogate” for the Future Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft equipped with a prototype of the future helicopter’s launcher.
The U.S. Army is confident that the Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missile can fly beyond 500 km after the service lost telemetry tracking data of the missile during a long-range test last month.
