German Eurofighter Typhoon pilots “shot down” several F-22 Raptors during the 2012 Red Flag Alaska exercises. The F-22 Raptor was still relatively new at...
China’s H-20 stealth strategic bomber will give Beijing a capability it has never possessed—a survivable, recallable, long-range nuclear strike platform that completes the country’s...
In 2012, a Russian Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range missiles patrolled the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks—and the United States didn’t...
The U.S. Air Force’s F-47 NGAD sixth-generation fighter is a complete shift away from traditional warplane design—commanding a distributed network of drones called Collaborative...
China’s two-seat J-20S stealth fighter has just transformed from a demonstrator into a “carrier killer” capable of hunting U.S. Navy supercarriers in the First...
The F-16 Fighting Falcon was originally designed as a humble daytime air superiority fighter—a lightweight dogfighter built around lessons from Vietnam, where heavier U.S....
The legendary SR-71 Blackbird that broke every aviation record almost never got built. In the early 1960s, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara repeatedly questioned...