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A senior U.S. Navy official just delivered a brutal warning about the Pentagon’s most consequential August 2026 decision: failing to fund the F/A-XX sixth-generation...
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A senior U.S. Navy official just delivered a brutal warning about the Pentagon’s most consequential August 2026 decision: failing to fund the F/A-XX sixth-generation...
The Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA was one of the most radical fighter concepts ever seriously studied by the United States Air Force and NASA....
The Pentagon has found its next great, expensive obsession: the sixth-generation warplane. Already, the Trump administration authorized the procurement of the F-47 Next-Generation Air...
Northrop Grumman has released a new promotional video showing a notional design for the U.S. Navy’s secretive F/A-XX next-generation carrier fighter, just hours after...
Key Points and Summary: The Trump administration’s proposed $1.5 trillion fiscal year 2027 Pentagon defense budget — controversial for its unprecedented size as a...
President Trump’s FY2027 defense budget requests $1.5 trillion, a record high representing a 44 percent increase over prior levels. The structure includes $1.15 trillion...
The United States built 185 F-22 Raptors before shutting down production and destroying the manufacturing tooling in 2011. That was a strategic mistake. The...
U.S. Air Force Seeks Historic Funding for Base Buildout, Nuclear Forces: The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is seeking funding for one of...
Available public images of China’s new 6th-generation carrier-launched stealthy Shenyang J-50 aircraft show a side view, a frontal view, its underside, and its rear...
The almost six weeks of armed conflict with the US and its allies taking on Iran’s military have raised the issue of the need...