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The F-22 was designed to defeat Soviet fighters, but the Soviet Union collapsed before production began. Cost growth, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
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The F-22 was designed to defeat Soviet fighters, but the Soviet Union collapsed before production began. Cost growth, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
"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 Air Force originally planned 381 F-22 Raptors. Production ended at 187 after the 2009 cancellation, and attrition has since reduced the fleet to...
The Eurofighter Typhoon, developed by Airbus, BAE Systems, and Leonardo, was designed during the Cold War and is now expected to serve into the...
Russia expected the Su-57 Felon to anchor a large fifth-generation air force and later ordered 76 by 2028. Sixteen years after the prototype flew,...
While everyone knows about the iconic F-22 Raptor and the ubiquitous F-35 Lightning II, China’s Chengdu J-20 (as well as their J-35) fifth-generation warplane...
The sticker price on an F-35A is $82.5 million, and it does not describe the aircraft. A flyaway figure is not a combat-worthy aircraft,...
Shutting down F-22 production made every remaining Raptor more expensive. Without a continuing line the program lost its economies of scale, spare parts stopped...
There is no Super Eurofighter Typhoon. Eurofighter has not adopted the designation, and the phrase compresses six separate programmes — a new radar, an...
Thirty-two of America's 184 F-22 Raptors are older Block 20 aircraft used mainly for training, without the combat capability of the rest of the...