Included in the Department of Defense’s enormous proposed Fiscal Year 2027 budget is a procurement request for an additional ...

A closer look at some of the fighters with the longest striking range.

Five years after its maiden flight, South Korea unveiled the KF-21 fighter jet. The Korea Aerospace Industries describes it ...

As terrible recent conflicts have shown, the fighter aircraft is far from dead and can prove vital for a nation’s survival. The most modern fighters can shoot down an enemy aircraft at a range of 100 ...

A closer look at the true price of military air power.

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The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...

While it might be tempting for the general public to refer to any military aircraft that flies fast as a fighter jet, there are a couple that don't exactly fit that designation. The legendary A-10 ...

Many of today’s military aircraft still trace their origins back to designs developed in the 1950s. Platforms like the B-52 ...

As fighter jets have grown more and more expensive, pressure has mounted on modern air forces to enable those aircraft to carry out multiple distinct missions. The term “multirole fighter” is thrown ...