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Synopsis: Japan has doubled down on its next-generation GCAP fighter, confirming a 2035 in-service target after a fresh review of budgets, design work and...
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Synopsis: Japan has doubled down on its next-generation GCAP fighter, confirming a 2035 in-service target after a fresh review of budgets, design work and...
Key Points and Summary: The YF-118G Was the Cheap Stealth Fighter -The YF-118G “Bird of Prey” was never meant to win dogfights or headline...
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 – Strip away the branding, and the Trump-class battleship looks less like Iowa nostalgia and more like a networked warfighting...
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 – Europe and key allies are already looking past fifth-generation aircraft toward what comes next: a sixth-generation fighter “family of...
Key Points and Summary – Russia is pitching the S-550 as the next layer above the S-500: a mobile interceptor aimed at ICBM defense,...
Key Points and Summary – The Air Force’s F-47 NGAD could cost as much as $300 million per jet—far above the “F-35-like” price leaders...
Key Points and Summary – This piece dissects the Air Force’s ambitious ten-year plan built around the F-47 NGAD and B-21 Raider, plus ‘Super’...
Key Points and Summary – Congress has gutted funding for the Navy’s F/A-XX program, cutting FY2026 support to just $74 million while fully backing...