Fighter jets remain one of the most important tools in modern military strategy. While new technologies like drones and ...

- The F-22 Raptor is still the most lethal air-superiority fighter flying, but it is a 1990s design flying into a 2030s threat environment. China is churning out J-20 stealth fighters, experimenting ...

Key Points and Summary - Europe's sixth-generation Future Combat Air System (FCAS) fighter jet program is in trouble, plagued by delays and internal friction. -The core issue is a lack of teamwork ...

The United States and China are the two obvious contenders for sixth-generation fighter programs—and various European nations have also committed to their development. The race to field a ...

Europe's efforts to develop a next-gen fighter independently of the United States may be at risk of falling apart, as tensions continue unabated.

Two of the biggest names go head-to-head.

"If Airbus maintains its position of not wanting to work with Dassault, the matter is dead," said Dassault boss Eric Trappier.

ROME—For more than three decades, the combat aircraft community has classified fighter development into generations. Readers will be familiar with how fighters have been cataloged by their ...