Aerospace & Defense
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,...
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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,...
For a decade, every long-range air-to-air missile in the world has been measured against Europe's Meteor. Now its Chinese rival has done the one...
In October 2001, Boeing lost the largest fighter program ever conceived and nearly lost the fighter business with it. For twenty-four years the company...
Bill Sweetman spent a career prying open America's most classified aircraft programs. Now he's pointing at the F-35's next radar — a system whose...
Canada's review of its F-35 purchase was supposed to be about which fighter to fly. It has become something bigger: whether to expand the...
China's aerospace industry did something that looked impossible 20 years ago: it built one of the world's largest stealth-fighter fleets. But the J-20's greatest...
The Iran war was as close to a pure air campaign as America has fought, and James Holmes — who holds the J.C. Wylie...
The Pentagon's most expensive weapon ever can perform its full mission one hour in four, and the trend line points down. Then the program's...
China fields the most warships. China fields the most soldiers. Count military aircraft, though, and the pattern breaks: one country operates nearly a quarter...
The conventional wisdom says America's F-35 has finally surpassed the older F-22 Raptor — more sensors, constant upgrades, an information-warfare machine. But on the...