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Britain Spent £686,000,000 to Build the GCAP Stealth Fighter With Italy and Japan — Now 4,000 Engineers Could Be Redeployed in 10 Weeks

Britain’s Global Combat Air Program faces a 10-week funding deadline. The current bridge funding for GCAP — the 6th-generation stealth fighter shared with Italy...

Jack BuckbyMay 11, 2026

A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor assigned to Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, takes off during Checkered Flag 23-1 at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, Nov. 4, 2022. Checkered Flag is a large-force aerial exercise which fosters readiness and interoperability through the incorporation of 4th and 5th-generation aircraft during air-to-air combat training. The 23-1 iteration of the exercise was held Oct. 31 - Nov. 10, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Betty R. Chevalier)

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For 20 Years, the F-22 Raptor Couldn’t Carry External Fuel Tanks Without Losing Stealth — Lockheed Just Solved That Problem

At the Air & Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium in February 2026, Lockheed Martin publicly displayed a production-representative scale model of what it informally...

Jack BuckbyMay 11, 2026

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China Simulated a J-20 vs F-22 Dogfight — The J-20 Only Wins When It Has 2 to 3 Drone Wingmen Helping It

In 2024, a research team led by Professor Zhang Dong at China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University — one of China’s premier military-aerospace research institutions —...

Isaac SeitzMay 10, 2026

DAYTON, Oh.--An F-22A Raptor from the 1st Fighter Wing conducts flying operations during a solar eclipse, April 8, 2024. The aircraft is from the 27th Fighter Squadron stationed at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va. The squadron was conducting dissimilar formation training in unfamiliar airspace.(U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Matthew Coleman-Foster)

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German Pilots ‘Shot Down’ F-22 Raptors in 2012 — They Also Admitted They Couldn’t Get Within 20 Miles of One in Real Combat

In a 2012 Red Flag exercise at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, two German Eurofighter Typhoons claimed notional “kills” against U.S. Air Force...

Steve BalestrieriMay 10, 2026

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The F-22 Was Classified ‘Stealth+’ and the F-47 Is Classified ‘Stealth++’ — Boeing’s Sixth-Gen May Be the Stealthiest Fighter Ever

Boeing’s F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) sixth-generation fighter has been designated “Stealth++” by the U.S. Air Force — a classification one tier above...

Steve BalestrieriMay 10, 2026

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Tom Cruise Could Make $100,000,000 From Top Gun 3 — Paramount Just Confirmed the Sequel and Cruise Is Officially Locked In

Paramount Pictures formally confirmed Top Gun 3 at CinemaCon in April 2026, with Tom Cruise officially returning, Jerry Bruckheimer back as producer, and Ehren...

Caleb LarsonMay 9, 2026

J-20 Fighter from China. Image from PLAAF

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China Has 300 J-20 Stealth Fighters in Service — But Its Radar Cross-Section Is Still 100 Times Larger Than the F-22 Raptor

China’s Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter entered service with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force in March 2017, and by 2025 the PLAAF had built...

Jack BuckbyMay 9, 2026

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Lockheed Spent Years Designing the X-44 Manta as a Tailless F-22 in 1999 — It Never Flew, But Its Design May Have Inspired the F-47

In 1999, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works designed the X-44 Manta — a “Multi-Axis, No Tail Aircraft” built on the F-22 Raptor fuselage with a...

Stephen SilverMay 9, 2026

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Boeing Won a $20,000,000,000 Contract for the F-47 NGAD — 185 Aircraft Designed to Replace the F-22 and Outclass China’s J-20

In March 2025, President Donald Trump and U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin announced that Boeing had won a $20 billion...

Steve BalestrieriMay 9, 2026

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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Britain Spent £686,000,000 to Build the GCAP Stealth Fighter With Italy and Japan — Now 4,000 Engineers Could Be Redeployed in 10 Weeks

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

For 20 Years, the F-22 Raptor Couldn’t Carry External Fuel Tanks Without Losing Stealth — Lockheed Just Solved That Problem

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

China Simulated a J-20 vs F-22 Dogfight — The J-20 Only Wins When It Has 2 to 3 Drone Wingmen Helping It

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

German Pilots ‘Shot Down’ F-22 Raptors in 2012 — They Also Admitted They Couldn’t Get Within 20 Miles of One in Real Combat

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

The F-22 Was Classified ‘Stealth+’ and the F-47 Is Classified ‘Stealth++’ — Boeing’s Sixth-Gen May Be the Stealthiest Fighter Ever

Dollars and Sense

Tom Cruise Could Make $100,000,000 From Top Gun 3 — Paramount Just Confirmed the Sequel and Cruise Is Officially Locked In

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

China Has 300 J-20 Stealth Fighters in Service — But Its Radar Cross-Section Is Still 100 Times Larger Than the F-22 Raptor

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Lockheed Spent Years Designing the X-44 Manta as a Tailless F-22 in 1999 — It Never Flew, But Its Design May Have Inspired the F-47

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Boeing Won a $20,000,000,000 Contract for the F-47 NGAD — 185 Aircraft Designed to Replace the F-22 and Outclass China’s J-20

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