by David Axe | Oct 11, 2012 | Monitor
<< Previous | Next >> America is an air power. And for every kind of air power, the U.S. has different, iconic warplanes. When the Pentagon needs to frighten its enemies and rivals, the Air Force deploys fast, radar-evading F-22 stealth fighters or B-52...
by David Axe | Sep 17, 2012 | Monitor
Liaoning, left, and the J-21. Photos: Chinese Internet via China Defense Blog and Shanghaiist The U.S. knows very little about China’s newest stealth fighter prototype, the Shenyang J-21. But the just-released photographs of the Chinese jet reveal it to have a...
by David Axe | Sep 16, 2012 | Monitor
Shenyang J-21. Photo: via China Defense Blog Here we go again. Twenty-one months after China’s Chengdu aerospace firm unveiled its J-20 jet fighter prototype — Beijing’s first stealth warplane — the rival Shenyang company has revealed what...
by David Axe | Aug 7, 2012 | Monitor
Photo: via David Cenciotti It’s either one of the biggest aviation news scoops in the last decade, or the latest in Hollywood fakery. Today ace aviation reporter David Cenciotti circulated the above photo, apparently depicting a stealth helicopter similar to...