China's next-generation fighter jet programme, which reportedly achieved a significant milestone in December with the test flight of two distinct prototypes believed to be sixth-generation aircraft, ...
NATO fighter jets conducting air patrol missions in the Baltic states had to scramble twice in late December to intercept and escort Russian aircraft, according to the Ukrainian news site European ...
Last week, videos emerged on social media of two stealth fighter jets in tail-less configuration. One of them a massive jet with delta-wing design, featuring three engines hinting at a likely long ...
It is reported that the length of the twin-engine aircraft and the span of the J-50's lambda wing is 22 meters, and the wing area is 145 square meters. The fighter has a maximum takeoff weight of 40 ...
New Delhi: Fighter jets have come a long way since the culmination of the World War 2 where America proved its aerial combat superiority. The USA was always ahead of others as it introduced ...
Before getting into the weeds of what each generation entails, two points to be noted. First, the notion of aircraft generations came up only in the 1990s. It has thus been retrospectively applied to ...
Images and video of a tailless delta-wing aircraft ... The first jet appeared on Thursday in daylight videos near Chengdu, Sichuan. The videos showed a large fighter with three engines and exhaust ...
For the community of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) watchers, this aircraft was not unexpected. I have published articles on Chinese next-generation fighter efforts over the last half decade.
Known as the ‘Tomcat,’ the F-14 is a carrier-capable twin-engine supersonic fighter jet with a variable-sweep wing design. It first deployed with the US Navy in 1974 aboard the USS Enterprise as a ...