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The Air Force's $21 billion effort to modernize the B-52H into the B-52J is meant to keep the bomber flying into the 2050s. A...
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The Air Force's $21 billion effort to modernize the B-52H into the B-52J is meant to keep the bomber flying into the 2050s. A...
Built for low-altitude nuclear attack, the B-1B became a precision bomber, close-air-support platform and long-range anti-ship missile carrier. New external pylons, digital cockpit systems...
The military aircraft boneyard outside Tucson, officially the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, covers 2,600 acres and normally holds about 3,200 aircraft, 6,100...
Russia expected the Su-57 Felon to anchor a large fifth-generation air force and later ordered 76 by 2028. Sixteen years after the prototype flew,...
While everyone knows about the iconic F-22 Raptor and the ubiquitous F-35 Lightning II, China’s Chengdu J-20 (as well as their J-35) fifth-generation warplane...
Northrop built the F-20 Tigershark as a fast, affordable export fighter with Mach 2 speed, seven hardpoints and more than 9,000 pounds of carrying...
The J-35A grew from a company-funded FC-31 demonstrator into the PLAAF’s second stealth fighter. Its publicly known performance may not match the F-22’s kinematics...
Shutting down F-22 production made every remaining Raptor more expensive. Without a continuing line the program lost its economies of scale, spare parts stopped...
The Air Force entered fiscal 2026 planning to retire every A-10. It will now fly them until 2030. The problem is what closed in...
Thirty-two of America's 184 F-22 Raptors are older Block 20 aircraft used mainly for training, without the combat capability of the rest of the...