Starting at about $4 billion a year in 2018, replacing the Army’s 4,300 aircraft will become less expensive over the next decade before shooting up to nearly $5 billion a year in 2032, according to a new report from the Congressional budget Office. Most of the Army’s 4,300 piloted aircraft are ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Just over half of the U.S. military’s V-22 Ospreys are ready to fly missions at any given time and the service doesn’t plan to hit its target readiness rate as soon as it would like, according to program manager Col. Matthew Kelly. The fleet’s readiness rate, ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Conspicuously absent from the show floor at the Navy League’s annual Sea-Air-Space Conference was the Airbus H135, given that its main competitors to build the Navy’s next training aircraft both brought helicopters to the event. Bell’s [TXT] 407GXi, painted shiny ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–Having Japan as a foreign military sales partner on the V-22 could end up saving the U.S. government $60 million or more over the life of the program, efficiencies Osprey Program Manager Marine Corps Col. Matthew Kelly hopes will increase as more countries buy into the ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Leonardo Helicopters has completed flights of its single-engine TH-119 necessary for instrument flight rules certification and should gain FAA approval in coming weeks. If successful, the TH-119 — Leonardo’s pitch for the U.S. Navy’s next-generation training ...

The State Department has cleared the Czech Republic to buy more than $1 billion in Bell [TXT] AH-1Z attack helicopters and Sikorsky [LMT] UH-60 Black Hawks. Larger of the two separate authorizations, announced May 6 by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, is for $800 million. That will buy the ...