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China, despite aggressively exporting a wide variety of military hardware, is unlikely to ever export the J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighter. While international interest...
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China, despite aggressively exporting a wide variety of military hardware, is unlikely to ever export the J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighter. While international interest...
The MiG 1.44 was meant to be the Soviet Union's F-22 — a supercruising, internally-armed fighter to dominate 21st-century air combat. Instead it became...
For over a decade, China's J-20 had a fifth-generation airframe and a fourth-generation problem: it couldn't get the engine it was designed for, flying...
The F-22 Raptor is famous for its stealth, but its two Pratt & Whitney F119 engines are just as remarkable: 70,000 pounds of combined...
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...
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...
The F-22 Raptor is considered by many to be one of the most advanced aircraft currently in service. Despite being built in the 1980s...
The U.S. Air Force originally planned to build hundreds of F-22 Raptor stealth fighters. The Air Force built only 187 F-22s before shutting down...
The U.S. Air Force has approved $508 million through 2031 to arm its KC-135 Stratotanker, C-5 Galaxy, KC-46 Pegasus, and C-17 Globemaster III aircraft...
A retired SR-71 Blackbird Reconnaissance Systems Officer just revealed an explosive new theory about why the legendary spy plane was really retired in 1990....