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Europe's flagship joint fighter program, FCAS, has collapsed over a Franco-German feud. France's answer: pour its money into the Rafale F5, an upgrade so...
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Europe's flagship joint fighter program, FCAS, has collapsed over a Franco-German feud. France's answer: pour its money into the Rafale F5, an upgrade so...
The JAS 39 Gripen was designed to be everything the F-35 isn't: cheap to fly, simple to maintain, and able to operate from a...
Turkey built the Kaan as a declaration of independence from American airpower. Kicked out of the F-35 program in 2019, Ankara poured a decade...
Europe's most ambitious fighter program is dead: the Franco-German FCAS collapsed after Paris and Berlin couldn't agree on control. Now eight German and Spanish...
The F-35C's engine exhaust reportedly hits 3,600°F — far hotter than the Ford's flight deck was built to take. So the $13 billion supercarrier...
A new GAO report finds the F-35 can perform all its assigned missions only about a quarter of the time — a readiness rate...
A US Marine Corps F-35B flew the first Meteor missile tests — for America's allies. When integration completes, British and Italian F-35s will out-range...
America's F-47 sixth-generation fighter nearly died in 2024 over a $300-million-per-jet price tag. Now Boeing is building the first one in St. Louis against...
France's nuclear carrier took twelve years to build, lost her propeller in the Atlantic, and sailed six years on spares made for 1960s ships....
While the YF-23 fought for the Air Force contract, Northrop was drawing a carrier version to replace the F-14: folding wings, twin tails, canards,...