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Key Points and Summary – Lockheed Martin is quietly lobbying to save 35 early Block 20 F-22 Raptors from the scrapyard by folding them...
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Key Points and Summary – Lockheed Martin is quietly lobbying to save 35 early Block 20 F-22 Raptors from the scrapyard by folding them...
Key Points and Summary – The F-22 Raptor is still the world’s premier air-dominance fighter, but its record is far from flawless. That 1...
Key Points and Summary – The B-52J isn’t about nostalgia; it is about mass at range in a decade of scarce stealth bombers and...
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 – More than fifty years after the F-15 first took to the air, the new F-15EX Eagle II is proving...
Key Points and Summary – The second B-21 Raider has arrived at Edwards AFB as Northrop Grumman builds out a fleet the Air Force...
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 – The F-105 Thunderchief, or “Thud,” began life as a supersonic nuclear striker before becoming the U.S. Air Force’s primary fighter-bomber over...
Article Summary – The Lockheed XF-104 Starfighter emerged directly from Korean War combat lessons, after U.S. pilots found their F-86 Sabres outclassed by MiG-15s....
Article Summary – Though over 4,000 missiles were fired at the SR-71 Blackbird, the legendary spyplane was never shot down—and only one foreign jet...