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NASA’s experimental X-59 jet, which could make supersonic commercial travel a reality, has been cleared for final assembly. The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft, designed by Lockheed Martin, could take its first flight as soon as 2021. NASA’s first large scale piloted X-plane in more than three decades is …

On Dec. 22, 1964, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird flew for the first time at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The Lockheed Skunk Works (now Lockheed Martin) built the original SR-71 aircraft. The first aircraft to enter service was delivered to the 4200th (later, 9th) Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at …

An F-16C flown by Maj Jeffrey Entine, 85th Flight Test Squadron test pilot, prepares to fire a rocket at a test drone at Eglin Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. John Raven) According to a statement issued by the 40th Flight Test Squadron, the U.S. Air …

Sukhoi C-22 Next Generation Reverse Swept Wing Fighter – concept art – Credits: Sukhoi Design Bureau The Sukhoi Design Bureau, now a part of Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation, has released the concept art of a previously canceled fifth-generation fighter program that was under development in the final years of the …

A U.S. Air Force F-16 from the 149th Fighter Wing, Texas Air National Guard with a new, darker single color paint scheme is on the ramp at the Iowa Air National Guard in Sioux City, Iowa on December 17, 2019.  (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Vincent …

U.S. President Donald Trump says F-35 pilots are “better looking than Tom Cruise and with better bodies.” “You’ve got to see them,” the Republican leader told a crowd of supporters at Battle Creek rally in Michigan discussing a meeting with U.S. Air Force (USAF) personnel. “They’re just like central casting” …

According to the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s Su-57 fifth-generation fighter jets have successfully passed the second stage of testing in Syria. Gerasimov said that during the second stage of testing in Syria, Su-57 completed all the planned tasks. No further details …

Shortly after the activation of its first squadron of F-35A fifth-generation fighters, The Republic of Korea Air Force, an aerial warfare service branch of South Korea, has released a new advertising video showing F-35A stealth fighter striking aircraft neutralizing one of North Korea’s most capable new military assets – an …

Credits: Paramount Pictures (Screenshot from Top Gun: Maverick new trailer) As we have reported earlier that Paramount Pictures Released Second Official Trailer of Top Gun: Maverick. Just 48 hours after the second Top Gun: Maverick trailer was released, Paramount Pictures has posted a behind the scenes of top gun 2 during …

© AFP 2019 / DIBYANGSHU SARKAR According to the Times of India report, the Absence of operational data-link (ODL) was one of the biggest hurdles that the Indian Air Force (IAF) faced during the Pakistan Air Force retaliation on February 27, a day after the IAF carried out Balakot airstrike …