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Europe's most ambitious fighter program is dead: the Franco-German FCAS collapsed after Paris and Berlin couldn't agree on control. Now eight German and Spanish...
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Europe's most ambitious fighter program is dead: the Franco-German FCAS collapsed after Paris and Berlin couldn't agree on control. Now eight German and Spanish...
A new GAO report finds the F-35 can perform all its assigned missions only about a quarter of the time — a readiness rate...
A US Marine Corps F-35B flew the first Meteor missile tests — for America's allies. When integration completes, British and Italian F-35s will out-range...
After the A-12 died, Lockheed offered the Navy carrier-based stealth twice: first a marinized Nighthawk, then the heavily redesigned A/F-117X with folding wings, air-to-air...
Commercial satellites caught China's fighter plants adding eight million square feet — enough to build 100-plus stealth fighters a year while the F-22 line...
Vice Admiral Thomas Connolly famously said the F-111B Navy variant lacked “enough thrust in all Christendom to make a Navy fighter out of that...
German authorities have launched a criminal investigation after three US Air Force F-16 pilots were targeted by high-powered lasers. The incidents occurred on December...
Russia designed the Su-75 Checkmate, a single-engine 5th-generation stealth fighter, to rival the U.S. Lockheed Martin F-35. Russia has built 0 operational Su-75 Checkmate...
The F-14 Tomcat was retired far too soon—and now its maker may be on the verge of winning the biggest U.S. Navy fighter contract...
The People’s Republic of China’s Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group J-36 sixth-generation stealth fighter — a three-engine fighter-bomber hybrid with a blended-wing-body configuration first photographed...