Japan warns the U.S. over cost and schedule. The RAF’s first pilot loves to fly it. Another day for the world’s largest defense program.

GE Aviation is counting on powering the next generation of U.S. and international aircraft — manned and unmanned.

Just weeks after the Air Force canceled the Block 30 Global Hawk drone, the Air Force’s top intel officer revealed that the service won’t to develop the MQ-X next-gen UAV.

Rome cuts 40 jets from its planned buy but will remain in the club. Have all the shoes dropped for Lockheed’s super-jet?

Skeptics in Canberra say Australia should ditch the F-35 and go big. Their odds are not good.

Get ready — here comes the sequestration monster again

Panetta and Secretary of State Clinton reinforced the U.S. commitment to Europe amid the planned pullouts.

Monocles dropped into martinis when SecDef appeared to move up the U.S. timetable. Then things got confusing.

France’s flagship wins India’s competition, beating Lockheed, Boeing and others — but the deal isn’t quite closed yet.

The Pentagon must continue to tweak its weapons mix if it wants to meet the military challenges of this century, a study concludes.

Huntington-Ingalls is not giving up on a naval export version of its Coast Guard cutter. Trouble is, does anyone want to buy one?

SecDef signs a deal with his British counterpart agreeing to help with the Royal Navy’s new carriers.

In what may be a harbinger of the immediate future for the aerospace industry, Boeing just announced that it’s closing its Witchita, Kansas facility, home to its B-52 and KC-767 military programs, citing high operating costs and a lack of new business for its maintenance and modifications division.

After a recent loss in Japan’s fighter competition, Big B comes roaring back with a $29.4 billion deal with Saudi Arabia.

Israel reportedly has waved off on buying littoral combat ships and instead wants something cheaper.

Despite problems and criticism in the U.S., the company thinks it can add still more new customers to Club F-35.

Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter scored a major victory when it was officially chosen to become Japan’s latest fighter.

If no one outside North Korea knows what it will do next, at least the U.S. can decide what its new strategy might be, analysts said.

After the death of the Dear Leader, the world holds its breath as it waits to see what’s next.

Big B says, hey, hold on, this thing ain’t over yet: Its Super Hornet could still be Japan’s new fighter.