Key Points – Despite Prime Minister Mark Carney’s review of Canada’s 88-unit F-35 fighter purchase, driven by souring US-Canada relations under President Trump, abandoning...
Key Points – President Trump’s recent, somewhat confusing, remarks in Doha (May 15th) about potential new “F-22 Super” and “F-55” (a twin-engine F-35 “super...
Key Points – Boeing’s F-15SE “Silent Eagle,” unveiled in 2009, was an attempt to confer stealth characteristics upon the F-15E Strike Eagle through features...
Key Points – President Trump’s May 15th remarks in Qatar proposing new “F-55” (a twin-engine F-35 “super upgrade”) and “F-22 Super” fighter concepts continue...
Key Points – The extensive US government control over the global F-35 spare parts supply and operational software is generating significant “consternation” among allied...
Key Points –The F-35 Lightning II’s combat radius of approximately 670 nautical miles, while not critically short, is increasingly viewed as a limitation, especially...
Key Points – China’s Shenyang J-35A stealth fighter, a significantly revamped evolution of the earlier underpowered FC-31 export concept (first seen 2014), has been...