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Summary and Key Points: Canada’s CF-18 replacement effort once included the Eurofighter Typhoon, a highly capable NATO fighter that fit Ottawa’s earlier priorities: air...
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Summary and Key Points: Canada’s CF-18 replacement effort once included the Eurofighter Typhoon, a highly capable NATO fighter that fit Ottawa’s earlier priorities: air...
Summary and Key Points: The F-47 NGAD is being framed as a Mach 2+ sixth-generation fighter with supercruise, long range, and the ability to...
Summary and Key Points: Indonesia has ended its planned acquisition of up to 24 Boeing F-15EX Eagle II fighters after nearly two years of...
Summary and Key Points: Northrop’s YF-23 Black Widow II remains the great “what if” of the ATF competition—praised for stealth shaping, speed, range, and...
Summary and Key Points: In the post-Soviet 1990s, U.S.-Russia cooperation on arms control helped fuel a wider nonproliferation push through the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat...
Summary and Key Points: Boeing’s X-32 was built around a clear idea: keep the JSF affordable, simple, and highly common across Air Force, Navy,...
The Navy’s flirtation with a carrier-based Advanced Tactical Fighter sprang from a late–Cold War problem: replacing the F-14 with something stealthier, longer-ranged, and optimized...
Synopsis: Russia’s Su-57 was marketed as a breakthrough fifth-generation fighter, with stealth, advanced sensing, and even manned-unmanned teaming. -But the program is increasingly defined...
Summary and Key Points: Canada’s long-paused F-35 plan may be shifting as Ottawa boosts defense spending and the Royal Canadian Air Force faces a...
Summary and Key Points: Russia’s Aerospace Forces are absorbing punishing losses of two premium combat aircraft—the Su-34 fighter-bomber and the Su-35 “Super Flanker”—raising questions...