“Stealth does not make you invisible,” an oft-whispered fighter pilot maxim, was reinforced in movie-like fashion last summer during NATO’s Trident Atlantic 25 exercise in Finland. In a brief but ...

A sleek, dark gray stealth fighter jet flies through a starry space above a partially illuminated Earth. Glowing blue streams of binary code (zeros and ones) flow across the foreground and background, ...

In the year 2026, the dogfight is long dead, and the focus of air warfare has moved on both at the strategic and tactical levels to emphasize networking, stealth, automation, and beyond visual range ...

Thrust vectoring—essentially redirecting the plane’s exhaust flow—allows modern fighters to quickly change direction, giving them an edge in close combat. Thrust vectoring nozzles are one of the most ...

Discover how the PAF dominated the skies during the 2025 Marka-e-Haq conflict using J-10C jets, PL-15 missiles, & ...

“Stand-off” range is the range an aircraft must remain away from its target to avoid putting itself in danger—a vital consideration in modern air combat. In air warfare terminology, “stand-off” ...

Brazil has notched a major milestone in its campaign to phase in Saab’s latest Gripen E jet as the country’s frontline fighter. The Brazilian air force (FAB) on 1 December confirmed having test fired ...

Turkey’s Baykar claims to have scored an aviation first with its Kizilelma unmanned air combat vehicle (UCAV) shooting down a target drone with a beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air missile. A video ...