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The F-22 ‘Super’ Stealth Fighter Is Coming

The Trump administration is backing an “F-22 Super” upgrade to keep the Raptor dominant until the 6th-gen F-47 arrives. -This ...
-The aircraft was fundamentally too heavy, its landing gear was not designed to withstand the violent forces of a carrier landing, and its delta-wing design was optimized for high-speed flight, not ...
Navy helicopter and fighter jet from USS Nimitz crash in South China Sea during routine operations. All five crew members ...
This is a cleaned-up, artistic rendering of the Chengdu J-36 stealth aircraft, as it appeared in a photograph that surfaced on Chinese social media in May 2025. (Janes) A photograph of Chengdu's new, ...
Among the aircraft launched was a new stealth fighter. It demonstrates China's technological leaps as it builds its naval forces. China published new footage on Monday of its latest aircraft carrier ...
Photographer Julian Elnasser spotted the two aircraft over Death Valley earlier this year. The secretive RAT55 NT-43A is thought to be almost exclusively used to test the airborne radar signatures of ...
Chinese J-35 naval fighter launches from aircraft carrier Fujian (18). PLAN photo The People’s Liberation Army Navy’s newest and most capable aircraft carrier launched and recovered the ...
More details have emerged about the role of the AVIC/Shenyang J-35A in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). The twin-engined fighter is optimised to deal with “high-level” threats, ...
Early Thursday morning, Donald Trump took aim at how ugly he thinks some military planes look. Speaking in Doha, Qatar, the president went off on one of his signature tangents at a press conference, ...
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How Aircraft Tails Have Changed over Time

Fighter plane tails were dramatically reshaped after the advent of “fly-by-wire” controls, rendering the aircraft’s stability irrelevant.