In August, 1952, Aviation Week provided the first details on the new Boeing B-52 bomber. But the access came with a price: the magazine agreed not to publish any data that was not cleared in advance by the U.S. Defense Department.

From the F-22 to bombers and new aircraft carriers, the U.S. pivot to the Asia-Pacific is becoming more and more visible

In 1952, Aviation Week provided the first details on the new Boeing B-52 bomber.

Japanese missile engineers aim to shorten engagement times and deal with stealthy aircraft by working out where maneuvers will take the targets

What if commercial pilots never had to learn to fly IFR? The distinction between instrument flight rules and visual flight rules (VFR) may go away in the not-too-distant future. What if the Black Hawk successor offered military pilots a 360-degree, all-weather view on a touch screen that could easily be reconfigured? These are the sort of things we might see in next-gen cockpits. Join Aviation Week editors Jim Asker, John Croft and Graham Warwick in peering into the future.

The top aerospace and defense stories you may have missed this week include Airbus starts A350-1000 wing assembly and Lockheed Martin studies 'stealthy' U-2 replacement.

If a provocation led to unplanned violence between Japan and China, leaders may struggle to control nationalist pressure for escalation. Technical factors, especially the vulnerability of ISR systems, would also be destabilizing.

The money is part of Madrid’s broader purchase plan calling for a €171-million investment in medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial system technology through 2020, though the first UAS is not expected to be operational before 2017.