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At Red Flag 17-1, 13 F-35As recorded 145 simulated air-to-air kills against seven losses. F-16 aggressors came in repeated waves, forcing some engagements into...
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At Red Flag 17-1, 13 F-35As recorded 145 simulated air-to-air kills against seven losses. F-16 aggressors came in repeated waves, forcing some engagements into...
The usual framing of the air balance in the Western Pacific is stealth against stealth. That is not what the Air Force is actually...
The last operational F-22 left Lockheed Martin's Marietta plant in December 2011, ending a run of 187 fighters against a requirement the Air Force...
For most of its history China's aviation industry could design an airframe it could not power. The J-20 flew on Russian AL-31 engines, which...
Defense expert Harry J. Kazianis traces the Raptor drawdown: 750 planned, then 648, 442, 339, and finally 187 — the Soviet target collapsed a...
Every stealth aircraft before the F-35 paid a brutal price for invisibility: fragile radar-absorbing skin that degraded almost as soon as it was applied....
Every debate about the greatest fighter becomes the Jordan-versus-LeBron argument, and this series already made its LeBron case: the F-16, still getting signed at...
On paper, a MiG-35 against an F-35 sounds like a fair fight, and in one narrow sense it is: dragged into a close-in knife...
France is offering precisely what fighter buyers want: a proven, combat-tested, continuously improving fighter that answers to no one but its owner. That's the...
You can walk right up to an F-117 or an early F-22 in an American museum and photograph every angle. It won't help you...