Speed is usually sold as the ultimate advantage in air combat, the quality that lets a fighter jet sprint through danger and vanish before an enemy can react. Yet the faster an aircraft moves, the ...

Fighter aircraft rarely spend all that much time operating at their top speeds. However, analyzing the top speeds of different fighter aircraft can still tell you quite a lot about an aircraft's ...

Military fighter jets are among the fastest aircraft in the history of aviation. But for some of these planes in the early 1990s, their incredible speed made them a target for enemy radar. One example ...

India’s scramjet success proves hypersonic strength, but turbine complexity keeps fighter engines a tough challenge.

Most people consider speed to be the ultimate sign of a fighter jet's performance, but you'll be surprised to learn that the F-35, considered one of the most advanced jets in the world, is slower than ...

Adaptive cycle engines are specially designed to alternate between efficiency and raw power—extending an aircraft’s range ...

"It has a much longer service life, higher speed, longer range, and quite a number of superior characteristics," Sergey Chemezov said MOSCOW, December 25. /TASS/. The advanced fifth-generation engine ...

When Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a mutual defence pact in September last year, it was clear what Riyadh wanted from ...

The US and China are considered the two strongest candidates for sixth-generation fighter jet programs, although many ...

The United States and China are the two obvious contenders for sixth-generation fighter programs—and various European nations ...