Beating Russia’s Su-57 with an F-15 in a ‘Dogfight’ With F-35 so far coming up a cropper, F-22 not being available in sufficient numbers, US think-tanks mulling over other stop-gap options Lockheed Martin is developing long-wave infrared search and track (IRST) devices to beat stealth INTRODUCTION : The venerable Boeing …

Here is the List of Top 10 Unmanned combat aerial vehicle 1) General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations. The MQ-9 is the first hunter-killer UAV designed for long-endurance, high-altitude surveillance. 2) CH-5 Rainbow CASC …

AERO Vodochody AEROSPACE a.s., and Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd., announced their interest in participating in the United States Air Force OA-X light attack program. Building on a strategic agreement the two companies signed in April that would facilitate them delivering technological and marketing advantages for Aero’s aircraft They have now …

Here are 10 Facts/Reasons why B-1B Lancer is BADASS Bomber 1) The Bone carries the largest payload of both guided and unguided munitions in the entire United States Air Force Inventory 2) The B-1B’s speed and handling characteristics are more like a fighter, allowing it to seamlessly integrate into large …

Su 57 Intercepted F35 over Syria or Did It? Claims and Counter-claims Since last few hours, a news is doing the rounds that Russian Su-57s intercepted an Israeli F-35 near Syrian airspace after which F-35I Adir had to beat a retreat back into Lebanon. The news was broken by Chinese …

Even US Marines Still Don’t Know When Their F-35Bs Might Literally Fall Apart In The Sky All F-35s Require Repairs, Modifications to Design and Retrofits – DOT&E Persistent Cracks in Bulkheads and Other Components Reported in Tests Other Issues Too PROBLEM IN A NUTSHELL : You come across any American …

Boeing’s Been Granted A Patent For Turning The B-1B Into A Gunship Bristling With Cannons U.S. Patent 9,963,231 B2 was awarded on May 8th to Boeing. It depicts a number of cannon configurations that can be stowed in a B-1B’s weapons bays and extended down outside of those bays for …

  During Operation Desert Storm the F-15E Pilot  Capt. Tim Bennett saw action for the first time. Capt. Tim Bennett served as a flight leader with the 335th Tactical Fighter Squadron. He flew a total of fifty-eight combat missions in the F-15E during the Iraqi conflict As Bennett himself explained to …

In 2001, Boeing’s X-32 stood off against Lockheed’s X-35 in a fly-off for the massively lucrative Joint Strike Fighter contract. Making a stealth fighter capable of carrying a significant payload while also having a version that can take off in short distances and land vertically was quite the task, and …

There won’t be any more new F-22s Read why?? A 2017 Pentagon report to Congress detailing production retail costs for Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor shows that reviving the powerful stealth air superiority fighter would be prohibitively expensive. Moreover, it would take so long to reconstitute the production line that it …