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Key Points and Summary – In this matchup, Isaac Seitz weighs the U.S. Air Force’s new F-15EX against Sweden’s latest JAS 39 Gripen E....
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Key Points and Summary – In this matchup, Isaac Seitz weighs the U.S. Air Force’s new F-15EX against Sweden’s latest JAS 39 Gripen E....
Key Points and Summary – In the 1970s, the Air Force’s new lightweight fighter, the F-16, almost made the jump to carrier decks. Under...
Key Point and Summary – China’s J-20 Mighty Dragon looks formidable on paper: Mach 2 speed, a big AESA radar, 24,000 pounds of payload,...
Key Points and Summary – On paper, Russia’s Su-35 and America’s F-22 Raptor look surprisingly close. Both can sprint at around Mach 2.25, boast...
Key Points and Summary – The F-15E Strike Eagle may lack stealth, but it still holds one crucial title: fastest fighter in the U.S....
Key Points and Summary – The Eurofighter Typhoon lacks true stealth, a growing handicap in a world filling up with F-35s, J-20s, and future...
Key Point and Summary – Russia’s MiG-41, or PAK DP, is billed as a sixth-generation stealth interceptor meant to replace the MiG-31 with hypersonic...
Article Summary – Today’s tailless, 6th-generation stealth fighters did not appear from nowhere. Lockheed Martin’s X-44 MANTA, conceived in 1999 as a “tailless F-22,”...
Key Points: This piece asks what the U.S. Air Force would look like if it had fielded 750 F-22 Raptors instead of fewer than...
Article Summary – Chinese state TV now touts the J-35 carrier fighter as nearly matching the F-35’s stealth, claiming a radar cross-section smaller than...