In fact, they are playing a numbers game: called the 6th generation, or "5+" or "5++" generation, just trying to sell fighter jets more expensive. Just like the UK is developing the so-called sixth generation 'Tempest', in fact, the UK's own fifth generation aircraft has not yet ac...
“Let’s just go to the [Indian] Air Force. Most of those Sukhois and MiGs [fighter aircraft] are referred to as ‘flying coffins.’ Very often Indian pilots die when they are testing, or flying, those,” says Aparna Pande, a political scientist at the Hudson Institute in Washington. ...
However, to address this, large-scale development and procurement activities for 4th, 5th, and 6th generation combat aircraft are underway. Defense budgets and expenditures are crucial for industry growth, with market leaders like the KF-21 fighter aircraft (Boramae) undergoing test flights. However...
This isn’t the first time the Air Force looked to a digital design revolution to usher in a new generation of aircraft. During the service’s last major new jet acquisition,the T-7A Red Hawk trainer, the Air Force and manufacturer Boeing promised the program would lead to a fre...
Two missions involve offensive air superiority operations to defeat enemy fighter aircraft and surface-to-air defences within enemy territory, and three involve defensive air superiority to protect friendly territory against enemy aircraft, cruise missiles, and theatre ballistic missiles.Mark Sheppard...
U.S. and Philippine fighter aircraft staged a joint patrol and training over a disputed South China Sea shoal where Chinese fighter jets fired flares last year to drive away a Philippine aircraft, Philippine officials said.
A civilian aircraft that violated restricted airspace in Delaware Saturday afternoon prompted fighter jets to scramble because the president was at his home in Wilmington, Anthony Guglielmi, Chief of Communications for the United States Secret Service, said. "Shortly after 2 p....
Alaska Legislature Asks Trump to Retain Denali's Name Instead of Change It to Mount McKinley The Alaska Legislature has passed a resolution urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount McKinley ...
The latest5th-and the coming6th-generationfighters may be remarkable feats of engineering but, for all their capabilities, they share two drawbacks. First, they can cost over US$120 million each, and second, they can take so long from first sketch to entering service that they end up being...
US Senate Defeats Bid to Stop F-16 Fighter Jet Sale to Turkey More Reuters FILE PHOTO: An F-16 combat jet aircraft of the Turkish airforce takes off at the Air Defender Exercise 2023 at the military airport of Jagel, northern Germany, June 9, 2023. Axel Heim...