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"There is no substitute for a fifth-generation fighter," said retired Col. J.V. Venable of the Mitchell Institute. "It is a complete package of collection,...
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"There is no substitute for a fifth-generation fighter," said retired Col. J.V. Venable of the Mitchell Institute. "It is a complete package of collection,...
The usual framing of the air balance in the Western Pacific is stealth against stealth. That is not what the Air Force is actually...
Every source gives a different missile count for the Eagle II: 12, 22, 23, even 28. The audit sorts it out. Twelve air-to-air missiles...
In one budget cycle the F-15EX program of record jumped from 129 aircraft to 267, the largest fighter-buy reversal in years. The jet was...
The Air Force has opened the search for a next-generation infrared eye for its F-15s, asking industry who can build a modern Infrared Search...
On July 1, U.S. Pacific Air Forces released its first-ever image of a combat drone flying beside a crewed fighter, an F-15EX over the...
Park the Air Force's newest fighter beside one built in the 1980s and you cannot tell them apart. That is exactly the misunderstanding. Beneath...
Two hundred miles off the California coast in 1985, an F-15 pilot hauled his fighter into a near-vertical climb and fired an 18-foot missile...
An F-15EX landed at Kadena this week to talk of "the next chapter of airpower" — but the jet belongs to a Florida test...
The Air Force long treated the F-15EX Eagle II as a bridge to an all-stealth force. Now it has more than doubled the planned...