More than 70 aircraft are struck by lightning every day. If you happen to be flying when a strike occurs, chances are you won ...
What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in ...
R esearchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made a new physics-based tool that can predict how ...
More than 70 aircraft are struck by lightning every day. If you happen to be flying when a strike occurs, chances are you won't feel a thing, thanks ...
The UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee found that a "pattern of short-term decision-making" had delayed investment in the F-35 fighter jet early on, increasing its later costs.
General Atomics and Anduril are simultaneously testing their respective YFQ-42 and YFQ-44 aerial drones. Only one of the two will ultimately win the Air Force’s “Collaborative Combat Aircraft” ...
Finland’s first F-35A Lightning II has emerged from the assembly line at Lockheed Martin, marking a significant milestone in ...
General Atomics has rolled out the latest iteration of its modular Gambit series of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), ...
The USAF is likely to keep the Rivet Joint flying past 2050, 90 years after entering service. The absence of a planned ...
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Japan Starts F-35B Training Flights

As deliveries continue, the JASDF has now started training operations with the F-35B Lightning II at Nyutabaru Air Base. The JASDF (Japan Air-Self Defense ...
The 'spy’ (or, more correctly, reconnaissance) aircraft must survive enemy fighters and anti-aircraft weapons, often relying on little more than speed, altitude or guile. Here are ten spy planes of ...
Germany has set out its plan to transition weapons, systems, and missions from the soon-to-be retired Panavia Tornado to its ...