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 ...
While it might be tempting for the general public to refer to any military aircraft that flies fast as a fighter jet, there are a couple that don't exactly fit that designation. The legendary A-10 ...
Japan plans to expand the number of bases hosting advanced F-35A stealth fighter jets amid neighboring countries' military activities and air power modernization efforts. Chitose Air Base on Hokkaido, ...
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 ...
A modern fighter jet’s weapons systems officer is responsible for monitoring sensor data, operating weapons, and conducting electronic warfare. In Top Gun, Anthony Edward’s lovable character Goose is ...
As tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela continue to grow, American fighter jets made their closest known approach to Venezuelan airspace in years on Tuesday. The Pentagon flew two F/A-18 fighter ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military flew a pair of fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela on Tuesday in what appears to be the closest American warplanes have come to the South American country's airspace ...
The future of aerial warfare might be missing one key component – the pilot. FOX Business was exclusively invited to Northrop Grumman’s unveiling of its next-gen autonomous fighter, named "Project ...
You don't need to have seen either "Top Gun" movie to know that fighter jets can flip upside down, unlike commercial aircraft. But the sight of an inverted jet doesn't mean physics has flipped on its ...
China and Japan ties, already frayed by comments made by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Taiwan, came under further strain at the weekend after a Chinese fighter aircraft trained fire-control radar ...
A US Navy warship fired missiles at two American F/A-18 fighter jets above the Red Sea last year. The warship mistook the fighter jets for Houthi cruise missiles, the investigation shows. One of the ...