Both launched ambitious military jet engine programmes during the 1980s. Both depended heavily on Soviet and Russian ...

Canada's review of its F-35 purchase was supposed to be about which fighter to fly. It has become something bigger: whether to expand the air force to 140 aircraft, split the work between Saab and ...

The U.S. Navy’s next-generation fighter jet will be built by one of the top three American aviation giants—but which one will win the contract? According to Aviation Week & Space Technology, Lockheed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty years after the arrival of the first fifth-generation jet, only a few have entered service. Fifth-gen jets are still the ...

Neglecting to build America's fighter jets and bombers arsenal will put its ability to win future conflicts at risk, writes ret Gen. T. Michael Moseley. (Staff Sgt. Zachary Rufus/Air Force) On ...

Quick. If I ask which American defense companies build fighter planes, what names come first to mind? Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), I'll bet, maker of the F-16 Falcon, the F-22 Raptor, and the F-35 ...

The U.S. Air Force has formally launched a competition to build its new fighter jet, the Pentagon’s first in two decades, with the winner to be selected next year. The acquisition strategy for the ...