Daily Archives: Oct 9, 2025

It's not difficult to build a flashy fighter aircraft to impress at an airshow. It's another thing to produce one that can withstand, and win, in modern warfare. Russia's latest fighter aircraft exhibit this tension balancing traditional design DNA with cutting-edge upgrades, but facing the weaknesses of sanctions, production...

Early June 22, 2025, morning hours witnessed B-2 Spirit bombers starting the very first operational deployment of Massive Ordnance Penetrators against Iran's Fordow and Natanz nuclear facilities. Elsewhere, another plane was working in silence to provide their safe delivery. The F-22 Raptor, being America's finest air superiority fighter, cleared...

Thirty years after it lost one of the closest fighter contests in U.S. Air Force history, the YF-23 "Black Widow II" could be coming back and this time, onto the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. But like its initial existence, the return of the design in Northrop Grumman's...