The next fighter jet may not need a runway. Shield AI and GE Aerospace have completed a critical propulsion test for X-BAT, an autonomous strike aircraft built to take off and land vertically. The ...

The F-35 automates much of the flying, but former Harrier pilots say that creates a new challenge: breaking old muscle memory ...

The original GE Aerospace engine nozzle, designed for the F-16, is key to building a vertical takeoff robotic jet prototype.

When one thinks about fighter jets, no matter their size and regardless of whether they are piloted or autonomous, the first thing that comes to mind is a runway. Aircraft of this kind need to ...

Shield AI’s unmanned vertical takeoff craft the X-BAT is employing axisymmetric vectoring, using a a jet engine first tested ...

The key part is a nozzle. Engineers slotted an Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle, or AVEN, into GE’s F110-GE-129E engine. Then they fired it up at a test site in Peebles, Ohio. The nozzle pivots ...

The AV-8 Harrier jump jet became the first VSTOL fighter jet that the Royal Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps used for decades, paving the way for the F-35B.

Fighter jets enable an aircraft carrier to extend its reach well beyond a coastline. Carriers have been in operation since World War I, and in the years and conflicts since, the mighty vessels have ...