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The United States built 185 F-22 Raptors before shutting down production and destroying the manufacturing tooling in 2011. That was a strategic mistake. The...
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The United States built 185 F-22 Raptors before shutting down production and destroying the manufacturing tooling in 2011. That was a strategic mistake. The...
The Sun ’n Fun Airshow in Lakeland, Florida, featured the F-35C, a carrier-based variant with larger wings and reinforced landing gear, making for a...
Summary and Key Points: Classified Russian defense industry documents leaked by the international intelligence collective InformNapalm on November 4, 2025 reveal that both of...
We Got Up Close to the F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter: The F-22 Raptor first took to the skies on September 7, 1997, and formally...
U.S. Air Force Seeks Historic Funding for Base Buildout, Nuclear Forces: The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is seeking funding for one of...
The Problem: Twenty-two U.S. National Guard adjutants general from every state operating Air National Guard fighter squadrons have sent a formal letter to Congressional...
The U.S. Air Force is flying retired F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighters as threat-representative aircraft in Red Flag wargaming exercises, simulating China’s Chengdu J-20 and...
Dassault Aviation is arguably the most famous and successful name in French military aviation history (in fairness, it’s also made its fair share of...
The Eurofighter 'Shot Down' F-22 Raptors in Alaska. The Air Force Noticed. Here's the warplanes origin story.
China is the only country besides America with two operational stealth fighters. The J-20 entered service in 2017. The J-35 joined in 2025. Neither...