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China's J-20 "Mighty Dragon" is the only fifth-generation fighter in service built without a gun, a deliberate bet that stealth and long-range missiles have...
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China's J-20 "Mighty Dragon" is the only fifth-generation fighter in service built without a gun, a deliberate bet that stealth and long-range missiles have...
A missile bolted to a wing is a radar reflector that wrecks the F-35's stealth, so the jet carries its weapons in an internal...
China, despite aggressively exporting a wide variety of military hardware, is unlikely to ever export the J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighter. While international interest...
The B-2 Spirit is the most capable bomber ever built — and the only aircraft that can drop the 30,000-pound bunker-buster that struck Iran's...
The MiG 1.44 was meant to be the Soviet Union's F-22 — a supercruising, internally-armed fighter to dominate 21st-century air combat. Instead it became...
The debate over China's J-20 has always been whether it can beat the F-22 or F-35 in a fight. This analysis argues that's the...
The Air Force long treated the F-15EX Eagle II as a bridge to an all-stealth force. Now it has more than doubled the planned...
For over a decade, China's J-20 had a fifth-generation airframe and a fourth-generation problem: it couldn't get the engine it was designed for, flying...
The F-117 Nighthawk, the world's first stealth aircraft, was officially retired in 2008 — yet a portion of the fleet still flies classified missions...
Russia's Su-57 Felon was billed as a fifth-generation rival to the F-22 — but it's spent the Ukraine war launching missiles from the safety...