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The F-35 Lightning II has no kill switch — but Washington still retains enormous leverage over every foreign operator. The Joint Program Office and...
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‘A Combat Warplane’: The Dassault Rafale Fighter Doesn’t Care About the F-22 or F-35 Stealth Fighter
The Dassault Rafale is a French-built multirole fighter aircraft developed by Dassault Aviation to fulfill a wide variety of combat missions within a single...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In November 2009, an Emirati pilot flying a French-built Mirage 2000 notionally shot down a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor during a joint wargame...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet pitched the F-55 Ferrari concept — a supercharged F-35 incorporating technology from the company’s failed sixth-generation fighter demonstrator —...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On May 20, 2026, Airbus Defence rolled out the latest Tranche 4 Eurofighter Typhoon for the German Air Force at its Manching facility in...
Dollars and Sense
There is no F-35 Lightning II kill switch — the Joint Program Office and Lockheed Martin have both said so directly. But the rumor...
Dollars and Sense
Airbus Defense and Space chief Mike Schoellhorn told an Airbus event that he would support a two-aircraft solution for the European Future Combat Air...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet told investors that the company’s F-35 Ferrari concept — an advanced fifth-generation-plus derivative of the F-35 Lightning II incorporating...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) — the joint sixth-generation fighter program between Britain, Italy, and Japan — is facing its first major crack....