From innovative airframe designs, such as the stealth flying wing used in stealth bombers, to the latest advancements in stealth coating technologies, these aircraft represent the pinnacle in stealth ...

Key Points and Summary - This analysis explores why Boeing’s X-32 lost the Joint Strike Fighter competition to the aircraft that became the F-35. -While the X-32 was designed for manufacturing ...

Military aviation history is filled with aircraft that achieved extraordinary performance yet never became widely fielded.

In the next few decades, the standard passenger aircraft will look radically different, according to the head of one of the world’s largest plane manufacturers. Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said in a ...

China’s latest J-35A fifth-generation stealth fighter is said to combine speed, stealth and advanced targeting in a networked “kill chain”, raising questions for US and regional air defenses.

Radar-absorbent materials (RAM) play a key role in determining the effectiveness of an aircraft’s stealth performance. As stealth performance becomes a design cornerstone of military aircraft, it is ...

The Su-57’s design is optimized for short-range combat at the expense of stealth, meaning it is most effective when over friendly airspace in a defensive role.

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works is taking work it did to compete for the U.S. Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter and applying it to a new stealthy, survivable Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) ...