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

Key Points and Summary – An unclassified Air Force plan says the service needs 1,558 combat-coded fighters by 2035—about a 22 ...

An ambitious Air Force plan to acquire hundreds more advanced fighter jets for homeland defense over the next decade would ...

A new report to Congress pitching the Air Force’s 10-year fighter jet plan is missing key details and explanations, raising ...

The US Air Force requires a 22% expansion of its fighter fleet to 1,558 aircraft by 2035, up from 1,271 currently, according ...

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 ...

India’s most ambitious defence dream is taking shape. A fifth-generation stealth fighter aircraft is finally being built to ...

With their powerful engines and aerodynamic frames, the following aircraft represent the pinnacle of fighter jet technology in terms of speed and performance.

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 ...

A San Diego defense technology company unveiled an artificial intelligence-piloted fighter jet Tuesday that can take off vertically without runways, accelerating the Pentagon's push toward a future ...

Other programs, such as the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program, complement, not substitute, manned fighter aircraft. These programs flag industrial capacity, overall budget limits, and the ...

China's military has revealed a new, tailless combat aircraft, identified as the J-36 sixth-generation fighter jet. This ...