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For years, China's air force had a glaring weakness: its fighters couldn't refuel in the air, so they couldn't reach far beyond China's coast....
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
For the first time, all 22 generals who command America's Air National Guard fighter squadrons signed one letter to Congress, warning the U.S. Air...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. expelled Turkey from the F-35 stealth-fighter program after Ankara bought a Russian air-defense system. Now the Trump administration appears poised to approve...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In the 1980s, Japan set out to build its own modern fighter jet, a symbol of its high-tech rise. Washington pressured Tokyo to abandon...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The MiG-35 should have been a useful fighter for Russia — a cheaper, capable jet with much of the performance of heavier aircraft. Instead,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The F-22 Raptor is still the best air-superiority fighter in the world — and the U.S. built only 187 before ending the line in...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
It first flew when Nixon was president — a bundle of gambles: fly-by-wire, the side-stick, the bubble canopy. Fifty years and 4,600 airframes later,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Denmark's auditors checked the F-35 math for the first time in nearly a decade — and found a 25 percent surprise the warnings had...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
America Missed It: China’s J-35 Is Headed to Every Carrier in China’s Fleet – Most analysts believed that China’s fifth-generation carrier-based warplane, the Shenyang...