The United States once had to hold its breath on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. There were delays and cost overruns. Accidents plagued the program. The huge expense of building out the fleet still stings. Many foreign partners stood up and ordered the fifth-generation jet, though. Israel was one ally that has made their version of the F-35 Lightning II, an almost invisible hot rod that can dominate the airspace. The Israelis call their F-35I the Adir, which means “Mighty One,” and oh, how mighty this airplane is.
Author: Michael
The U.S. Air Force’s decision to deploy F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to the Philippines for Exercise Cope Thunder 26-1 has been described in different ways by analysts, with some suggesting it was more symbolic than anything. But that assessment may miss the point.
The deployment – conducted from April 6 to April 17, 2026, with flight operations centered on Basa Air Base – was never about proving the F-22 could win a war with China on its own.
Back last December, MBDA and Lockheed Martin, the U.S. prime contractor for the F-35 Lightning II fifth-generation stealth fighter, “completed a series of critical ground-based integration tests” to bring the Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) closer to operational use on the F-35A.
Testing at Edwards AFB included ground-vibration work and internal bay fit checks to confirm that the missile can be safely stowed and deployed from the F-35A’s internal weapons bay, preserving the aircraft’s valuable stealth profile.
U.S. Air Force Maj.
As photographs of the first “two” U.S. Air Force B-21 bombers blast onto the public scene, most observers can only speculate about the mysterious, yet paradigm-changing suite of technologies said to be woven into the platform.
There is, by design, very little information available about the platform’s critical technical elements that are less visible to the observer’s eyes.
A B-21 Raider is unveiled at Northrop Grumman’s manufacturing facility on Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, Dec. 2, 2022.
Around 900 UK troops are training alongside all
The RIPSAW M1 is an all-new uncrewed ground veh
As the Pentagon goes all-in on “drone dominance,” the U.S. military must pivot away from existing service-by-service stovepipes and institute a connected, joint approach to deploying autonomous and robotics assets in warfare, according to Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle.
“I want to be direct on something here — the Navy and Marine Corps should not be independently building two versions of the same autonomous future,” Caudle said onstage Thursday morning at the Modern Day Marine conference.
The Army Rugby Union Women’s side have be
Congress has cleared the way for the Coast Guard to be funded again after the House of Representatives approved a spending bill on Thursday for most of the Department of Homeland Security. The move should restore paychecks to nearly 10,000 civilian employees of the service, and reopen a wide range of benefits for Coast Guard members, from moving expenses to college tuition plans.
The move comes after a 76-day funding fight that has been a grueling experience for members of the Coast Guard and their families.
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