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Defense expert Harry J. Kazianis traces the Raptor drawdown: 750 planned, then 648, 442, 339, and finally 187 — the Soviet target collapsed a...
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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...
The F-22 was supposed to fade quietly into the F-47's shadow. Instead a photographer caught one over the Mojave wearing its successor's technology, the...
Lockheed Martin is pitching a "fifth-generation-plus" F-35 packed with sixth-generation technology — roughly 80 percent of a sixth-gen fighter at half the cost. But...
China's fifth-generation fleet has crossed a threshold no Western planner can ignore, and the number is still climbing. The latest J-20s carry new radars,...
Northrop built exactly two YF-23 prototypes for the competition that produced the F-22, and both still exist. I've stood next to each, a month...