Key Points and Summary – The Navy’s future air wing faces a capacity and range crunch: just 273 F-35Cs across a large carrier fleet, and Super Hornets already beyond intended service lives. Enter ...

Boeing wants to make room for work on the nation's new fighter jet at its site in north St. Louis County. The local machinists union called the move "deeply disappointing." ...

Long delays to get parts for F/A-18 fighters and Virginia-class submarines have forced maintainers to strip from other ...

Because of delays relying on vendors, Navy maintainers have been forced to scavenge parts from submarines and grounded ...

Another F/A-18 Hornet has suffered a mishap, this time in Malaysia. Video shows the fighter jet catching fire as it took off, forcing its crew to eject. The incident in Malaysia came one day after a ...

For Washington, the urgency is clear. China’s naval aviation is advancing at an unprecedented pace. The stealthy J-35 carrier ...

The defense secretary got his moment flying as a passenger in the same fighter jet Tom Cruise piloted in ‘Top Gun: Maverick.’ ...

The acquisition of second-hand F/A-18 fighter jets from Kuwait is only a short-term measure to fill the Royal Malaysian Air ...

The Air Force is pursuing its Next-Generation Air Dominance program as the Navy works to field its adjacent F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter series. While the US Air Force and Navy currently fly some ...

He narrowly avoided a crash after spotting a flock of birds in his flight path ...

Update (6:20 op.m. EDT): The jet experienced a "catastrophic malfunction" during takeoff, CNN's reporting, but the Navy's still investigating exactly what happened. The leaking jet fuel does appear to ...