Only two F-16XLs were ever made. They entered the Air Force’s Enhanced Tactical Fighter competition to select a replacement for the F-111 Aardvark. Aviation enthusiasts tend to recognize the F-16 ...

Zelensky's itinerary will include bilateral talks with leaders of Latin American and Asian countries and meetings with top ...

US military aircraft played a pivotal role in the Gulf, ensuring air superiority and executing precision strikes in hundreds ...

Aerospace Industries Association, which represents U.S. planemaking and defense companies such as Boeing and General Dynamics ...

In the various Transformers anime, cartoons, games, comics and movies, Starscream has had plenty of great designs worthy of ...

While many US fighter jet designs have fallen by the wayside, some have contributed technologies incorporated into later ...

As President Joe Biden prepares to leave office next week, he remains insistent that his one-term presidency has made strides ...

Fighting Falcon hasn't been able to turn the tide for Ukraine in its war against Russia, but the multirole all-weather fighter has increased Kyiv's defensive capabilities significantly. On Tuesday, ...

Examples: Grumman F-14 ‘Tomcat’, General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, McDonnel Douglas (later Boeing) F/A-18 ‘Superhornet’, Sukhoi Su-30, etc. Fifth Generation (2000 onwards) — The most advanced ...

Early variants of the F-16 sell for roughly ... 2,600 miles. The Fighting Falcon fills a variety of roles for any air force but it is primarily used for interception and general strike missions.

Before getting into the weeds of what each generation entails, two points to be noted. First, the notion of aircraft generations came up only in the 1990s. It has thus been retrospectively applied to ...

"Payment for the downed F-16 is our contribution to supporting those who risk their lives every day for the security of the Motherland," Fores Director General Sergey Shmotyev told Tass. He described ...