Aviation Week & Space Technology

A look at new aircraft and cabin products developed to solve pandemic-related challenges for airlines.

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.

A roundup of upcoming conferences, exhibitions and summits.

France will spend an extra €1.7 billion ($2 billion) this year, but uncertainties lie ahead, linked to the pending sale of used Rafales.

Boeing confident it has resources to meet airlines’ demand.

Initial phases of FCAS may cost €8 billion but could bring combat cloud technology to the frontline by 2030.

The specter of a renewed threat from Russia prompts Eastern European countries to raise their defense game.

The UK is adding billions to its defense budget, but spending plans are in flux until the Integrated Review reports.

While Russia’s defense budget is likely to flatten, Putin will maintain his focus on the nation’s strategic forces.

German defense budget is increasing to meet modernization needs, but hurdles to progress remain.

A decade of research and simulation is transitioning into a flight test series of autonomous aircraft projects in 2021.

The Boeing-Airbus duopoly cannot count on widebody sales anytime soon, so their hope is to get narrowbody production back to normal.

The defense budget is likely to reach 2.4% of GDP within two years. Slow naval programs will consume much of the money.

Beyond COVID-19, the new leadership team at the Pentagon will inherit a huge modernization agenda.

Major transit hubs have proven to be particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 crisis as connectivity falls apart.

Pinched by COVID-related economic woes, New Delhi is still prepared to buy what it needs to counter border threats in Ladakh.

Air cargo operators are gearing up to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine while fighting to overcome a capacity shortage.

Despite the pandemic, the industry continued to make progress in sustainability, space, aviation safety and more.

Four and half years since the Brexit referendum and aerospace is no nearer to understanding what the UK’s future trading relationship with its nearest and largest trading partner will look like.

Ask the Editors: China and Russia are not likely to follow in U.S. footsteps and establish separate space force branches within their militaries.

All four RQ-4s have been delivered and all 40 F-35As will be in 2021. So the 2021 acquisition budget is not rising much.

Long-haul aviation market has changed since the 777X was launched, increasing pressure on Boeing’s business case.

If the relationship between China’s defense spending and GDP holds, growth in allocations will trend downward in the coming decade.

Although the ministry has requested a 3.3% rise, something closer to the 1.5% average of the past eight years is more likely to happen.

Gen. John Raymond, the chief of space operations, looks back at the first year of operations for the U.S. Space Force and ahead at what is to come for