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America and China agree the future of air combat is a stealth fighter directing a swarm of drones. They disagree on who commands it....
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America and China agree the future of air combat is a stealth fighter directing a swarm of drones. They disagree on who commands it....
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...
The US Air Force flies roughly 140 bombers in total. The B-21 Raider meant to replace most of them is officially capped at 100...
Ukrainian-linked hackers obtained internal documents on Russia's PAK DA stealth bomber, Moscow's answer to the B-21 Raider. The files reveal a program still assembling...
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...
America's F-47 sixth-generation fighter nearly died in 2024 over a $300-million-per-jet price tag. Now Boeing is building the first one in St. Louis against...
While the YF-23 fought for the Air Force contract, Northrop was drawing a carrier version to replace the F-14: folding wings, twin tails, canards,...
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...
American analysts keep mirror-imaging China's J-20 as a rival dogfighter to the F-22. That's the wrong lens. The Mighty Dragon is evolving into a...