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 ...

Was the most stealth-optimized fighter ever produced just too far ahead of its time? In the late 1980s, Northrop’s YF-23 “Black Widow II” protruded from the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program as ...

At the Air Warfare Symposium, Elon Musk made a bold statement: “The fighter jet era has passed. The future is drones.” He argues that autonomous, AI-driven drone warfare will replace traditional ...

The F-35 is about stealth and situational awareness at the cost of the rather more- exciting traditional fighter virtues of speed and turn-rates. It is available in a conventional land-based variant, ...