Every stealth aircraft before the F-35 paid a brutal price for invisibility: fragile radar-absorbing skin that degraded almost as soon as it was applied. The F-22 is the cautionary tale, its coatings ...

The F-15EX was supposed to be the safe, unglamorous choice next to the stealthy F-35 and F-22, a bridge for aging squadrons rather than a headline grabber. Instead, it is quietly exposing a ...

In pursuit of a multirole mission, the F-35’s designers accepted trade-offs that reduced its stealth performance in exchange for significant improvements elsewhere. The US military has two stealth ...

I figured that there would be some kind of PR offensive out of the Joint Strike Fighter program in preparation for the floating of the UK carrier and the international debut of the F-35, and here it ...

Where the F-22 is brawn, the F-35 is brains—and the Air Force needs both. The U.S. has two of the world’s four fifth-generation fighters, the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II. Owing to their ...

The disclosure sheds new light on which fifth-generation aircraft participated in Operation Midnight Hammer last weekend.

President Trump described the F-55 as a substantial upgrade over the F-35, together with the ongoing upgrades to F-35 and F-22. U.S. President Donald Trump is currently on a tour in the Middle East, ...

Despite entering service nearly 20 years ago, the F-22 Raptor remains one of the most capable fighter jets ever built.NARA ...