by David Axe | Dec 18, 2012 | Monitor
The Air Force’s confident commencement of JSF flight training, six years before any frontline pilots are even needed, could be just the thing to restore confidence in the troubled stealth fighter.
by David Axe | Nov 16, 2012 | Monitor
The Air Force admitted losing two of its top-of-the-line F-22 Raptor stealth fighters on Thursday. It was the worst day yet in a bad year for the pricey, radar-evading jet built by Lockheed Martin.
by David Axe | Nov 8, 2012 | Monitor
An F-22 and an F-35 over Florida. Photo: Air Force The latest critic of the U.S. Air Force’s ambitious — and pricey — plan for an all-stealth fighter fleet is one of the flying branch’s top stealth pilots. Writing in the Air Force Research...
by David Axe | Nov 6, 2012 | Monitor
An F-35 over Florida in October. Photo: Air Force There have been a lot of sketchy claims made about the long-delayed, over-budget F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, history’s most expensive weapon program. But this one takes the cake. According to Stephen...
by David Axe | Oct 31, 2012 | Monitor
The J-31 on its debut flight. Photo: via China Defense Mashup China’s newest stealth fighter prototype reportedly took off on its first test flight over the Shenyang Aircraft Company airfield in northeastern China on Wednesday morning. The 10-minute aerial debut...