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Key Points and Summary – China’s rumored sixth-generation J-36 is being marketed as a “need for speed” stealth fighter, with reports pegging it at...
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Key Points and Summary – China’s J-20 Mighty Dragon is a major leap in avionics and low observability, but technology cannot fully substitute for...
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Key Points and Summary – Lockheed’s YF-22 wasn’t the inevitable winner of the Air Force’s Advanced Tactical Fighter contest. -Northrop’s YF-23 “Black Widow II”...
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Key Points and Summary – Boeing’s X-32B, the Joint Strike Fighter contender that lost to Lockheed Martin’s X-35 (now the F-35), survives in just...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Russia is spotlighting the Su-57’s new 177S/AL-51F1 “fifth-generation” engine after its Dubai debut. -Early Su-57s flew with the 117S/AL-41F1,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Russia portrays the S-500 as a stealth-killer, but the harder problem is turning a faint, low-frequency “something’s there” cue...
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Will the Franco-Spanish-German Future Combat Air System (FCAS) fighter project move off the drawing board and into the air? It seems increasingly unlikely. KEY...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Why Switzerland May Buy Fewer Than 36 F-35A Stealth Fighter Citing rising costs, Switzerland will truncate its order of 36 F-35A stealth fighter jets....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Switzerland is quietly scaling back its 2021 decision to buy 36 F-35As after Bern concluded it can no longer...