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Northrop Grumman's Manta Ray Could Change Undersea Warfare Forever

Summary: The Manta Ray, a new uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) developed by Northrop Grumman under DARPA's guidance, represents a significant...

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The U.S. Air Force Is Mock Dogfighting AI Piloted F-16 Fighter Jets

Summary: The U.S. Air Force is advancing artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities within its ranks by incorporating AI pilots into F-16 combat...

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MAKO: The Hypersonic Missile Built for U.S. Military F-35 Fighters

Summary: Lockheed Martin's recent unveiling of the Mako missile at the Sea Air Space 2024 event represents a significant advancement in air-launched...

19.04.2024 6

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Iran's Drone and Missile Attack on Israel Was Never Going to Start World War III

Summary: Iran's recent attack on Israel, involving 300 drones and missiles, represents a strategy termed "kinetic diplomacy," where military actions...

16.04.2024 7

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Game Changer: The Navy Wants to Rearm Warships with Missiles at Sea

Summary: The U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, equipped with advanced missile systems like the Mk 41 vertical launch system (VLS), face a...

15.04.2024 6

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How Much Does It Cost to Train a U.S. Air Force Pilot?

Summary: The United States, recognizing the strategic importance of its tactical aircraft, also understands the significant investment required to...

07.04.2024 10

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How the Eurofighter Typhoon 'Shot Down' An F-22 Raptor and We Should Not Worry

Summary: Despite its formidable reputation, the F-22 Raptor has faced challenges in simulated dogfights, notably against older jets and the German...

07.04.2024 10

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China's J-20 Stealth Fighter: Created with Stolen Technology from F-22 and F-35?

Summary: The article discusses allegations and evidence of China's theft of American stealth fighter designs. It outlines how Su Bin, a Chinese...

17.02.2024 8

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Russia's Nukes in Space? Why You Shouldn't Panic About this New Threat

On Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner relayed information related to what’s being described as a “serious national security...

16.02.2024 5

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After $2.4 Billion Spent, the U.S. Army Kills the FARA Helicopter

Last Thursday, the U.S. Army announced it would cancel its next-generation Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) helicopter program after...

14.02.2024 10

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The KF-21 Fighter Could Be a Real Game Changer

South Korea’s advanced KF-21 Boramae fighter is making the leap into mass production, with the country planning to procure at least 40 of these jets...

09.02.2024 10

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The ARRW Hypersonic Missile May Not Be RIP Afterall

In March 2023, Air Force acquisition executive Andrew Hunter told the House Armed Services Committee in no uncertain terms that the program for...

09.02.2024 10

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Russia and China are Racing to Build the World's Best Stealth Fighter Engine

Despite a popular focus on stealth – and to a lesser extent, data fusion – in today’s fighters, America’s turbofan advantage is just as...

07.02.2024 9

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Flying from Aircraft Carriers, the F-15 Sea Eagle Was Meant for Greatness

The F-14 Tomcat may be a legendary fighter that got the Hollywood treatment in 1986’s “Top Gun,” but for a short time in the 1970s, the Navy...

31.01.2024 4

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The F-15 Eagle Fighter You Know and Love Almost Looked Very Different

Developed at the peak of the Cold War, the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle was designed to compete against a Soviet fighter American military...

30.01.2024 7

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Did Russia Lie About its Kinzhal Missile? China Thinks So

Chinese military analysts are now acknowledging that the Kinzhal missile does not live up to Russian claims, dismissing it as “dated 1980s...

17.01.2024 5

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5GAT: This Drone Is So Secret That the Air Force Won’t Even Talk About It

In a recent video we published on YouTube, we showed you a clip of our interview with retired Air Force Major General Bob “Lorenzo” Behler –...

13.01.2024 3

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1,000 Fighters and Counting: How Many F-35s Will Lockheed Martin Build?

Despite setbacks related to ongoing hardware and software upgrades, Lockheed Martin recently completed production on the 1,000th F-35 Lightning II,...

11.01.2024 10

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F-16s and Chinese FC-31 Stealth Fighters? The Pakistani Air Force Has Big Plans

Pakistan’s senior air force official announced plans to purchase Chinese stealth fighters last week, potentially making Pakistan the first foreign...

09.01.2024 7

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The Houthis Learned Not to Cross U.S. Navy's MH-60 Sea Hawk Helicopters

03.01.2024 4

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Mach 10 Breakthrough: GE’s New Hypersonic Jet Engine Could Transform Air Travel

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine...

03.01.2024 10

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This F-16 Fighter Barely Dodged 6 Surface-to-Air Missiles

During the opening days of Operation Desert Storm, one American F-16 pilot overcame incredible odds by dodging not just one surface-to-air missile...

29.12.2023 6

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The F-15EX Proves America’s Eagle Still Owns the Skies

In this era of somewhat sluggish stealth fighters capable of sneaking deep behind enemy lines, the F-15EX Eagle II stands out from the 21st-century...

16.12.2023 10

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Why the U.S. Military Needs the Sidewinder Missile

Developed at a turning point in air-to-air combat, the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile was the world’s first infrared-guided — or heat-seeking —...

11.12.2023 10

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XB-70 Valkyrie: The Supersonic Bomber The Air Force Had to Scrap

In the late 1950s, the North American XB-70 Valkyrie looked like it had been ripped straight out of the pages of a science fiction comic book. With a...

11.12.2023 3

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Super Tomcat 21: The 'New' F-14 Fighter That Could Have Been a Game Changer

Not long ago, we explored the reasons the legendary F-14 Tomcat found itself sent out to pasture decades before its fighter classmates from the...

11.12.2023 4

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China's J-20 Stealth Fighter: Copied From Russia?

J-20: What Did China Learn from Russia's MiG 1.44 Stealth Fighter Program?- It’s not uncommon to hear people citing China’s theft of American F-22...

11.12.2023 5

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Don't Tell Hollywood: You Have Little to Fear from a Rogue AI

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is becoming more and more prevalent in our daily lives, but as AI is leveraged for more weapons applications, do we...

07.12.2023 6

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YF-23: The Stealth Fighter The Air Force Missed Out On (Mistake?)

In the decade and a half since it first entered service, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor has been an air superiority fighter without equal, but that...

04.12.2023 7

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Meet Gambit: DARPA's New Missile That Could Make China Freak

Sometime ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) quietly unveiled a new high-speed missile program called Gambit. The program is...

02.12.2023 10

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Fact or Fiction? Why China Thought Top Gun's SR-72 Darkstar was Real

After recent rumors surfaced that the United States Air Force is testing a new high-performance spy plane developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk...

02.12.2023 2

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Global Strike Eagle: What Happens When You Put Rockets on a F-15

In 2006, a team from Boeing proposed an incredible new use for America’s legendary F-15 Eagle that called for mounting a 45-foot rocket to its...

01.12.2023 4

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Black Triangle: Did an American TR-3A UFO Fight in the Gulf War?

For decades, rumors have swirled about the United States secretly operating highly classified black, triangular craft known as the TR-3A and TR-3B,...

29.11.2023 6

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These X-Planes Were So Secret That Their Huge Impact May Never Be Known

Over the years, the United States has funded the development of a slew of experimental aircraft, more commonly known as X-Planes, to push the...

27.11.2023 6

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Will the F-16 Fighting Falcon Lead Ukraine to Victory Against Russia?

After more than a year of requests, Ukraine is finally about to start receiving General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons to aid in its efforts against...

27.11.2023 5

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Will Military Drones Kill Off Human Pilots Once and For All?

In the not-too-distant future, the face of American airpower will dramatically shift away from a relatively few highly capable and crewed platforms...

27.11.2023 5

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YF-118G: The Stealth Program That History Forgot About

Throughout the 1990s, a team of engineers from McDonnell Douglas’ Phantom Works developed and tested a unique stealth fighter shrowded in the...

25.11.2023 7

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Ranked: Meet the Best 5th-Generation Stealth Fighters to Fly the Skies

In September 1997, an unusual-looking aircraft — the world’s first truly stealth fighter â€” left the runway at Lockheed Martin’s...

25.11.2023 9

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Skunk Works: How America Became a Stealth Fighter Superpower

When Lockheed’s legendary F-117 Nighthawk first entered service in 1983, it brought with it a revolution in military aviation. After decades of...

25.11.2023 20

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Why the XF-85 Was a Real 'Parasite Fighter'

XF-85: This was a crazy-looking fighter built for an idea that never came to fruition. Russia and China can thank the gods the U.S. military never...

24.11.2023 7

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The Best Fighters Jets America Almost Put on Navy Aircraft Carriers

America’s Nimitz- and Ford-class aircraft carriers represent the nation’s most potent form of force projection, with fleets of F/A-18 Super...

23.11.2023 5

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Forget F-35s: The U.S. Air Force Has One Advantage No Nation Can Beat

There’s no debate that the United States has the largest Air Force in the world, but when people discuss America’s various military advantages,...

23.11.2023 6

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Could VTOL Fighters Help America Win World War III?

Nearly two decades before the Harrier jump jet would prove the efficacy of vertical take-off and landing platforms, the U.S. Navy considered taking...

23.11.2023 5

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Against Hypersonic Weapons, Lasers Are No Silver Bullet

Lasers may be the cure for whatever ails you in science fiction, but if America is looking for a real solution to the myriad problems posed by modern...

23.11.2023 3

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Three Jets in One: Why the F-35 Stealth Fighter Can Do It All

The F-35 Lightning II is the most technologically advanced and capable tactical fighter in the skies today, but depending on how you look at it, it...

22.11.2023 2

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SR-72: A Successor to the SR-71 Blackbird Could Be Closer Than You Think

Recent hints that Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division may have already delivered an advanced new spy plane to the United States Air Force have...

22.11.2023 3

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X-24C: The Air Force's 50-Year-Old Hypersonic Scramjet Aircraft

Today scramjet propulsion is the subject of continued study, as it appears to be one of the most promising methods of powering hypersonic weapons and...

18.11.2023 10

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Is America Doomed in a Fight Against China's 200+ J-20 Stealth Fighters?

America’s F-22 Raptor is still widely considered the most capable and dominant air superiority fighter in the world, but as China’s J-20...

18.11.2023 8

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Can America Defeat China If Its Aircraft Carriers Can't Get Within Range?

After nearly two decades of counter-terror operations around the world, the United States military has recently begun shifting its focus away from...

18.11.2023 10

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This F-15 Once Shot Down an Enemy Jet in Mid-Air... with a Bomb

America’s F-15 Eagle has long since secured a position in the pantheon of the world’s greatest fighters. With an incredible air combat record of...

17.11.2023 3

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