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Five Ways The YF-23 Black Widow Was Better Than The F-22 Raptor The Advanced Tactical Fighter program was born in 1981 out of a...
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Summary and Key Points: The F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II are America’s two most advanced stealth fighters, both built by Lockheed Martin but...
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The Eurofighter Typhoon is often positioned as a comparatively lower-cost alternative to the F-35 Lightning II. Despite lacking comparable stealth systems, the Eurofighter is...
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Summary and Key Points: When the Soviet Union launched the MiG 1.44 (MFI program) in the late 1970s, the goal was to field a...
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The Dassault Rafale F5 is the most recent iteration of the Rafale, which is currently under development. It gives the aircraft’s avionics a thorough...
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Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Air Force originally planned to build 381 F-22 Raptors. Only 187 were built. Approximately 120 are combat-ready today....
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Iran habitually claims that it has shot down American aircraft. Whenever the United States does anything with its military during this tenuous ceasefire period,...
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Summary and Key Points: In 2009, Defense Secretary Robert Gates capped F-22 Raptor production at 187 aircraft — far below the hundreds originally planned...
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Summary and Key Points: In March 2013, two Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom IIs scrambled to intercept an American MQ-1 Predator drone flying surveillance...