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The F-35 Will Soon Have the AIM-260 Missile: For all of the impressive capabilities of the Lockheed Martin “Skunk Works” F-35 Lightning II 5th...
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The F-35 Will Soon Have the AIM-260 Missile: For all of the impressive capabilities of the Lockheed Martin “Skunk Works” F-35 Lightning II 5th...
For a decade, every long-range air-to-air missile in the world has been measured against Europe's Meteor. Now its Chinese rival has done the one...
For the first time, the Air Force published official performance figures for its next fighter, and the numbers set a record. Measured against the...
Too many registrations on the flight plan, ten minutes in Austrian airspace, and photos on a security council's table a week later. The F-117...
The US Navy built the deadliest air-to-air missile of its era, fired it in anger three times, and hit nothing. The pilots who made...
Four Cold War fighters wrote the playbook Ukraine just bought, and almost nobody outside Sweden remembers them. One went to war for the UN...
In October 2001, Boeing lost the largest fighter program ever conceived and nearly lost the fighter business with it. For twenty-four years the company...
The longest U.S. Navy aircraft carrier deployment since Vietnam left marks — and the yards she enters finish carrier work 113 days late on...
Bill Sweetman spent a career prying open America's most classified aircraft programs. Now he's pointing at the F-35's next radar — a system whose...
Boeing built two jets to answer two different questions — one flew clean, and one never landed vertically at full weight. Here is the...
Northrop built exactly two YF-23 prototypes for the competition that produced the F-22, and both still exist. I've stood next to each, a month...