According to the Heritage Foundation's Index of U.S. Military Strength in 2024, at the close of FY 2023, the Air Force’s ...

As, and the additional aircraft would take its planned fleet to 50 airframes. Nearly seven months after German media ...

An unclassified U.S. Air Force report, mandated by the 2025 NDAA, included figures of the required combat fleet, calling for an increase of nearly 300 ...

The United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, namely HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, are designed to carry up to 36 F-35B Lightning II fighter jets. This capacity enhances ...

A new US Air Force report to Congress says 1,558 combat-ready jets are needed, requiring faster F-15EX and F-35A production ...

Belgium is one of the smallest countries in Europe—with dimensions that are simply too short to accommodate the training needs of F-35 pilots.

Current fights show how tough the air war is getting, a Royal Air Force officer said. That's why sixth-gen tech is needed as ...

Today, we are opening an entirely new and truly meaningful chapter in our…relations between Ukraine and Sweden…for Ukraine to ...

The wavy lines on some fighters' canopies signify an ejection system that explodes the canopy before hurtling the pilot away ...

Over the past 80 years, the air forces of the world have ripped through the skies in five generations of jet fighters. The common denominator of all five generations is the jet engine, an invention so ...

With over a thousand F-35s built and thousands more on order, the F-35's flyaway costs can be lower than some fourth-generation fighter jets.

A U.S. Navy stealth fighter pilot was forced to eject from a $100 million F-35C Lightning II jet moments before the plane slammed into a California cotton field, say officials. Plumes of black smoke ...