Seventh generation fighters are being designed around a simple, unsettling premise: the human body is becoming the limiting factor in air combat. As engineers push toward hypersonic speeds, ...

Air combat is racing toward a tipping point where speed, data and exotic physics matter more than radar cross section alone. Seventh generation fighters, hypersonic strike weapons and quantum-enabled ...

As terrible recent conflicts have shown, the fighter aircraft is far from dead and can prove vital for a nation’s survival. The most modern fighters can shoot down an enemy aircraft at a range of 100 ...

Europe is not going it alone on next-generation airpower. Instead, it is pursuing a pragmatic hybrid: buying cutting-edge US technology quickly while insisting on local final assembly, software ...