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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...
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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 – 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 – Russia’s Su-57 just flew for the first time with its new Izdeliye 177 engine, marking the latest attempt to...
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 – 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 says a production-series Su-57 has completed its first flight with two “Product 177” (AL-51F) fifth-generation engines, the long-promised...
Key Points and Summary – Europe’s Future Combat Air System faces a make-or-break decision as Germany, France, and Spain near an end-of-2025 deadline to...