Daily Archives: Dec 11, 2025

Can a single aircraft reshape the equilibrium of air power throughout an entire coalition? Since its introduction in 2005, the F-22 Raptor has accomplished exactly that. Conceived after decades of stealth technology development, it combined invisibility, speed, and accuracy into one vehicle establishing an unprecedented standard for fifth-generation fighters. The...

A lost bolt. One bolt. That was sufficient to blast a door plug out of a newly rolled-out Boeing 737 Max 9, taking off from Portland, Oregon, in January 2024. The close call, potentially ending in disaster, instead was the turning point for Boeing's new CEO, Kelly Ortberg, and...

The newest turn of America's next-generation fighter drama is not an engineering advance, but an intersection of engineering realities, budget constraints, and procurement politics. With Lockheed Martin racking up soaring losses and the Pentagon's plans for future air superiority grinding to a halt, the plan to redesign the single-engine...