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The Ironic Saga Of Ukraine’s Newly Donated MiG-29 Fulcrums
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Apr 12, 2023
Ukraine Situation Report: Denmark To Decide By Summer On F-16s For Kyiv
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Apr 11, 2023
Romania Unveils Plan To Buy F-35s
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Apr 11, 2023
Ukraine Situation Report: Polish MiG-29s Delivered
By Howard Altman / Updated Apr 3, 2023
F-35 Engine Running Too Hot Due To ‘Under-Speccing,’ Upgrade Now Vital (Updated)
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 30, 2023
EA-18G Growler Pilot Talks You Through His Aerial Refueling Frustrations
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 29, 2023
The J-10 Changed China’s Fighter Game 25 Years Ago
By Oliver Parken / Updated Mar 29, 2023
Six F-16s Getting Autonomous Computer Brains For Combat Drone Trials
By Emma Helfrich / Updated Mar 28, 2023
F/A-XX Future Navy Fighter’s Big Funding Points To Prototypes
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 27, 2023
Big Emphasis On “Spectral Warfare” In Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance Plans
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 27, 2023
F-35 Closer To Carrying Six AIM-120 Missiles Internally
By Emma Helfrich / Updated Mar 24, 2023
F-15Es Strike Back After Deadly Iranian-Made Drone Attack On U.S. Base In Syria (Updated)
By Howard Altman / Updated Mar 24, 2023
Four Slovakian MiG-29s Flown Directly To Ukraine To Join Its Air Force
By Howard Altman / Updated Mar 23, 2023
F-15EX Conformal Tank Funds Sought, Fleet Size Questions Reemerge (Updated)
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 20, 2023
Our First Full Look At Turkey’s New TF-X Stealthy Fighter
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 17, 2023
Slovakia’s MiG-29s Are Officially Heading To Ukraine’s Air Force
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Mar 17, 2023
Ukraine Situation Report: Delivery Of Polish MiG-29s Imminent
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Mar 16, 2023
F-15E Strike Eagle Fleet To Be Slashed By Over Half: Report
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 16, 2023
MQ-9 Sensor Video Showing Collision With Russian Su-27 Released (Updated)
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Mar 16, 2023
Video Purports To Show Russian Su-27’s Close Encounter With An MQ-9 (Updated)
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Mar 15, 2023
Ukraine Situation Report: Poland Could Give Ukraine MiG-29s “Within Four To Six Weeks”
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Mar 14, 2023
Russian Su-27 Collided With U.S. MQ-9 Over Black Sea (Updated)
By Howard Altman / Updated Mar 14, 2023
F-15EX Eagle II Total Buy Increases From 80 To 104 In New USAF Budget
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 13, 2023
Russian-Iranian Deal For Su-35s Finalized, State Media Reports
By Stetson Payne / Updated Mar 11, 2023
New Electronic Warfare Suite Top Feature Of F-35 Block 4, Air Combat Boss Says
By Emma Helfrich / Updated Mar 9, 2023
Buying Just 80 F-15EXs Makes No Sense
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 8, 2023
Arming Ukrainian Fighters With AIM-120 Missiles Is A Complex Proposition
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 8, 2023
200 NGAD Fighters, 1,000 Advanced Drones In USAF’s Future Plans
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 7, 2023
Ukraine’s Defense Chief Pleas For Western Jets, Just Not A-10s
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 6, 2023
Ukraine Situation Report: Russian Su-34 Fullback Goes Down In Flames Over Donetsk
By Howard Altman / Updated Mar 3, 2023
Singapore Commits To F-35B Stealth Jets With Follow-On Order
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 24, 2023
Boeing To End F/A-18 Super Hornet Production In Two Years
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Feb 23, 2023
F/A-18 Super Hornet In Retro Gloss Black Paint Scheme Emerges
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Feb 22, 2023
Israel’s Secretive MiG-29 Fulcrum Test Program
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 15, 2023
Listen To F-16 Pilots Intercept The Octagon Object Over Lake Huron
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 13, 2023
F-16 Shoots Down “Octagonal Object” Over Lake Huron (Updated)
By Howard Altman / Updated Feb 12, 2023
F-22 Shoots Down Another Object, This Time Over Canada (Updated)
By Stetson Payne / Updated Feb 11, 2023
F-22 Shoots Down “Object” Flying High Over Alaskan Waters (Updated)
By Howard Altman / Updated Feb 10, 2023
Here’s How Feasible The U.K. Giving Eurofighters To Ukraine Actually Is
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Feb 10, 2023
Here Is What Russia’s Military Aircraft And Missiles Actually Cost
By Piotr Butowski / Updated Feb 9, 2023
This Is How Long It Would Really Take Ukraine’s Pilots To Convert To F-16s
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Feb 8, 2023
Iran Unveils Underground ‘Fighter Caves’ Housing F-4 Phantoms
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 7, 2023
The Shooting Down Of China’s Spy Balloon In Moment-By-Moment Audio
By Howard Altman / Updated Feb 7, 2023
First Fighters Land Aboard India’s First Homegrown Aircraft Carrier
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 6, 2023
F-22 Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off Carolinas With Missile (Updated)
By Howard Altman / Updated Feb 4, 2023
F-35s Have Debuted At Greenland’s Strategic Thule Air Base
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 31, 2023
Ukraine Claims Poland In Talks To Transfer Its F-16s (Updated)
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 30, 2023
F-15E Strike Eagles Now Flying Without Conformal Fuel Tanks On Air Defense Missions
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Jan 27, 2023
France Is Considering Transferring Fighter Aircraft To Ukraine
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 27, 2023
First Block 70 F-16 Has Flown From Lockheed’s New South Carolina Plant
By Emma Helfrich / Updated Jan 24, 2023
New USMC CH-53K King Stallion Helicopter Sling-Loads An F-35 (Updated)
By Oliver Parken / Updated Jan 24, 2023
Watch Nine F-16s Make A Crazy-Looking ‘Attack’ On A Danish Airbase
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 23, 2023
F-15EX First Operational Units Will Not Get Conformal Fuel Tanks (Updated)
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 20, 2023
Dutch Open To Transferring F-16 Jets To Ukraine (Updated)
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 20, 2023
Tailless Warplane Concept May Provide Clues To China’s Future Fighter Ambitions
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 18, 2023
Inside How The Marine’s Island-Hopping F-35B Playbook Is Being Written
By James Deboer / Updated Jan 18, 2023
The B-21 Raider Is And Isn’t A ‘B-2 Spirit 2.0’
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 11, 2023
F-35 Has Flown With Its New Computer Backbone For The First Time
By Emma Helfrich / Updated Jan 10, 2023
Unique Sensor Setup Emerges On Turkey’s Stealthy New Fighter
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 10, 2023
Canada Closes Deal For 88 F-35s To Finally Replace Its Aging CF-18s
By Oliver Parken / Updated Jan 9, 2023
Su-57 Felon Fighters Are Flying Ukraine Combat Missions: U.K. Intel
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 9, 2023
Russian Aerial Bomb With Mysterious Wing Kit Strapped To It Surfaces
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 4, 2023
F-35 Will Get New Radar Under Massive Upgrade Initiative (Updated)
By Emma Helfrich / Updated Jan 3, 2023
Japanese Fighters Intercept China’s High-Flying WZ-7 Drone For First Time
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 2, 2023