Daily Archives: Dec 17, 2025
YF-23’s Stealth Legacy Faces Its Second Carrier-Borne Trial
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...
5 Disastrous Fighter Jets That Became Flying Coffins
What makes an air fighter atrocious? It is not necessarily ungainly looks or an unconventional design. The worst fighter aircraft are those that accomplished no mission at all, endangered their pilots, or collapsed under the weight of their engineering claims. In war aircraft, where life and death balance on...
Boeing’s F‑47: The Stealth Superfighter Poised to Redefine Air Combat
"Modernization is about deploying a set of assets that create particular challenges for the enemy," General David W. Allvin stated earlier this year. That spirit is now encapsulated in the Boeing F‑47, the U.S. first sixth-generation crewed fighter aircraft, a platform designed to take giant strides well beyond the...
