The McDonnell Douglas Phantom II was one of the most successful and widely used fighter aircraft of the Cold War, and its ...

China’s race to field a sixth generation fighter has moved from rumor to something far more tangible, as new images and ...

Stealth fighters are no longer defined only by their shape. As air combat shifts toward longer ranges, dense electronic ...

The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...

As time has gone on, innovations in fighter jet technology have made “bubble cockpits” steadily more useful to pilots—and more expensive to maintain. To an untrained eye, the canopy of a fighter jet ...

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As fighter jets have grown more and more expensive, pressure has mounted on modern air forces to enable those aircraft to carry out multiple distinct missions. The term “multirole fighter” is thrown ...