Please turn JavaScript on
header-image

The Aviationist

Subscribe in seconds and receive The Aviationist's news feed updates in your inbox, on your phone or even read them from your own news page here on follow.it.

You can select the updates using tags or topics and you can add as many websites to your feed as you like.

And the service is entirely free!

Follow The Aviationist: The Aviationist: Military Aviation & Defense News

Is this your feed? Claim it!

Publisher:  Unclaimed!
Message frequency:  2.11 / day

Message History

The YFQ-44A has carried out its first captive carry evaluations with an inert AIM-120 AMRAAM missile as the U.S. Air Force entered the weapons integration testing phase of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program. On Feb. 23, 2026, the U.S. Air Force released the first photo of an Anduril’s YFQ-44A Fury “fighter drone” carrying an AIM-120 […]

Read full story
The Adaptable Communications Suite will allow the B-2A Spirit to operate efficiently within the Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control environment. Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has announced that a B-2A Spirit stealth bomber of the U.S. Air Force has flown for the first time with the Adaptable Communications Suite (ACS) 4.0. The milestone is part […]

Read full story
GA-ASI has named its YFQ-42 Collaborative Combat Aircraft as Dark Merlin, a small, fierce falcon species which hunts other falcons while collaborating in groups. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has announced on Feb. 23, 2026, the decision to name Dark Merlin its YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA). The selection of the name of a specific […]

Read full story
During the latest mission from Edwards AFB, the pilot aboard the F-22 directed the MQ-20 to perform tactical maneuvers, adjust waypoints, fly Combat Air Patrol profiles, and execute simulated threat engagement tasks. The U.S. Air Force and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. carried out a new autonomy demonstration involving an F-22 Raptor equipped with the […]

Read full story
Live-fire trials of the AH-64 with XM1225 APEX ammunition come as both U.S. and Russian attack helicopters experiment with proximity-fused cannon rounds to defeat small UAVs. The U.S. Army conducted the first successful live fire test of the 30×113 mm XM1225 Aviation Proximity Explosive (APEX) ammunition, employed by an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter in an […]

Read full story