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Key Points and Summary – The F-22 Raptor remains the world’s benchmark for air superiority, combining extreme thrust-to-weight, stealth and high-end sensors to deliver...
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Key Points and Summary – The F-22 Raptor remains the world’s benchmark for air superiority, combining extreme thrust-to-weight, stealth and high-end sensors to deliver...
Key Points and Summary – Congress has slashed funding for the Navy’s F/A-XX 6th-generation carrier fighter by 84 percent in the 2026 NDAA, signaling...
Key Points and Summary – Long derided as under-armed and fragile, the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) has been slated for early retirement and...
Key Points and Summary – The Pacific theater’s “tyranny of distance” will define whether the Navy’s sixth-generation F/A-XX succeeds or fails. -With Chinese DF-26...
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Navy’s future F/A-XX fighter is being designed to solve the hardest problem in Pacific warfighting: how to...
Key Points and Summary – Saab’s 29 Tunnan looked like a joke and flew like a revelation. -Nicknamed the “Flying Barrel,” it was actually...
Key Points and Summary – The USS Gerald R. Ford took 12 years to build and became a symbol of cost overruns, schedule slips,...
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet have been pushed decades beyond their original 6,000-hour design life thanks...
Key Point and Summary – China’s J-20 Mighty Dragon looks formidable on paper: Mach 2 speed, a big AESA radar, 24,000 pounds of payload,...
Key Points and Summary – On paper, Russia’s Su-35 and America’s F-22 Raptor look surprisingly close. Both can sprint at around Mach 2.25, boast...