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Key Points and Summary – This piece explores whether Donald Trump’s proposed Trump-class battleships make more sense as high-end battlefield sensors than as traditional...
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Key Points and Summary – This piece explores whether Donald Trump’s proposed Trump-class battleships make more sense as high-end battlefield sensors than as traditional...
Key Points and Summary: F-47 NGAD Coming to Europe if FCAS Does Not Occur? -European ambitions for a homegrown sixth-generation fighter are faltering. The...
Key Points and Summary – Canada’s government is reconsidering its plan to buy 88 F-35A stealth fighters and is openly weighing Saab’s Gripen as...
Key Points and Summary – Donald Trump’s proposed Trump-class battleships—flagships of a new “Golden Fleet”—promise to be the most lethal surface combatants ever built,...
Key Points and Summary – Europe’s homegrown 4.5-generation fighters—Gripen, Eurofighter Typhoon, and Rafale—are capable, upgradeable jets, but they cannot match a continent-wide network of...
Key Points and Summary – Finland has rolled out its first F-35A Lightning II, marking the start of a $9.6 billion transition from legacy...
Key Points and Summary – The F-35 Lightning II is simultaneously NATO’s most capable fighter and its most controversial. Critics highlight soaring costs, poor...
Key Points and Summary – Portugal is moving toward the F-35A as its “preferred” replacement for its aging F-16 fleet, with Air Force chief...
Key Points and Summary – Europe’s Future Combat Air System was supposed to be the next-generation backbone of European airpower, led by France’s Dassault...
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s Su-57 is marketed as a premier stealth multirole fighter, but it falls short against its closest benchmark: the...