Six airmen received the top flying honor for escorting B-2 bombers into Iranian airspace during Operation Midnight Hammer in ...
When a hostile nation deploys advanced air defense systems like the Russian S-400, traditional military aircraft face a deadly gauntlet of missiles with 400-kilometer ranges and radars designed to ...
Thirteen years ago, I made the case against the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in National Insecurity: The Cost of American ...
The F-35 Lightning II and the Su-57 Felon are among the world’s most advanced ...
Four SPEAR 3 missiles were carried on board an F-35B from the Integrated Test Force at NAS Patuxent River earlier this year, marking the first time that the new weapon has flown on the fifth ...
Iran’s IRGC has claimed it shot down a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone and opened fire on an F-35 fighter jet and an RQ-4 surveillance ...
A U.S. Air Force F-35 fighter at an air show in Bangalore, India, in 2023. (Aijaz Rahi/AP) The U.S. military’s senior echelons think constantly about a no-longer-unthinkable subject: being prepared to ...
Iran’s strike on the F-35 last week appears to have been the first successful incident of an F-35 being downed by ground fire, although the extent of the damage is still unclear. The United States Air ...
The CRS, which provides policy and legal analysis to the US Congress and committees, compiled the losses by perusing news reports and statements by the Department of Defence and the US Central Command ...