Military Aircraft

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A spokesman for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway says automatic federal spending cuts mean U.S. military aircraft won't provide a dramatic flyover at the start of this year's Indianapolis 500. Speedway spokesman Doug Boles...

TEL AVIV, April 23 (Reuters) - State-owned Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) signed a contract with Lockheed Martin to produce wings for the F-35 fighter aircraft with potential sales reaching $2.5 billion. IAI will begin delivering the F-35 wings in...

Many people in the Imperial Valley have become accustomed to the presence of the British military units that rotate through for their desert training operations. School children have had a chance to meet the tall Brits with strange accents who arrive in...

Two American stealth bombers flew over South Korea in a practice run to drop dummy munitions, the U.S. military announced Thursday. The unusual announcement is expected to further anger North Korea, which issued threats this month over recently...

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. has named a new president/CEO. The company announced today that its board of directors has chosen Larry A. Lawson to fill the position starting on April 6th. Lawson, who was executive vice president of Lockheed Martin...

Lockheed Martin Corp. is developing and building the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Pentagon's most expensive weapons program, for three U.S. military branches and eight international partners. The partners who are helping fund the plane's development...

The United States and its allies plan to buy more than 3,100 new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter warplanes in coming years. Following is a list of the planned purchases and possible changes, according to data provided by Lockheed Martin Corp., the prime...

America's newest warplane, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, could take a hit as the U.S. military makes tough decisions on how to meet mandatory federal government budget cuts that went into effect March 1. And any pullback could be felt acutely in...

This post has been updated. Please see note below. BEIRUT — Syrian warplanes bombed a remote area of Lebanon along the border with Syria on Monday, just days after the Syrian government warned that its patience was wearing thin with the cross-...

The Pentagon on Friday suspended the flights of all F-35 fighter planes after a routine inspection revealed a crack on a turbine blade in the jet engine of an F-35 test aircraft in California. It was the second grounding of the warplane in two months....

It's called the "death spiral," and America's newest warplane, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, is in danger of falling into it before the plane has even gone into service. The term - recently invoked by top brass involved in the F-35 program - refers...

The head of Pratt & Whitney's military engine business said on Wednesday that driving down the cost of the F-35 fighter jet was "burned on our brains," but said cuts sparked by U.S. budget woes could slow the effort. Bennett Croswell, president of Pratt...