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The Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) — the joint sixth-generation fighter program between Britain, Italy, and Japan — is facing its first major crack....
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Pentagon is moving to fast-track the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation carrier-launched stealth fighter after months of internal debate over whether the program could...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Air Force plans to build 185 Boeing F-47 NGAD sixth-generation stealth fighters at an estimated $300 million per unit — the same...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Air Force is buying 267 F-15EX Eagle II fighters — up from 129. The Mitchell Institute’s research director, Heather Penney, and retired...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Japan could abandon the UK-Italy-Japan trilateral Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) for Boeing’s F-47 6th-generation fighter. U.S. President Donald Trump personally pitched an export...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
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...
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The F-47 stealth fighter will have a 1,000-mile combat radius — nearly double that of the F-22 — and is built for the Indo-Pacific....