The U.S. Air Force just gave itself a lot more room to sell Boeing’s aerial refueling tanker overseas. In a contract modification worth $13.4 billion, the Air Force raised the ceiling on an existing Foreign Military Sales agreement for the KC-46A Pegasus tanker from $5.7 billion to $19.1 billion, more than tripling how much business […]

Boeing plans to offer Japan’s Ministry of Defense a drone it developed jointly with the Royal Australian Air Force, as Tokyo works out a new coastal defense concept built around unmanned aircraft, according to the Nikkei. Boeing’s defense division president, Steve Parker, told Nikkei the company will propose its MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone to the […]

An F-35B fighter squadron from South Carolina has taken over rotational duty in Japan, replacing a Hornet squadron under a U.S. Marine Corps program that keeps U.S.-based units cycling through the Pacific. Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 533, known as the Hawks, arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni on September 5 under the Unit Deployment […]