After decades of waiting, hopes for a truly 'made in India' fighter jet engine might finally be realised. New Delhi and Paris are preparing to co-develop a cutting-edge power plant—a project set to ...
The engine upgrade project, codenamed 'Product 177', has undergone successful testing, and trials of the Sukhoi Su-57 have also begun.
Piston-engined fighters ruled the roost for thirty years. A brutal survival of the fittest ensured a rapid evolution of these characterful machines; the final fighters were over six times faster and ...
Adaptive cycle engines are specially designed to alternate between efficiency and raw power—extending an aircraft’s range ...
The Crusader was active during the Vietnam War, ‘scoring’ 19 air-to-air victories for three losses, the best ratio of any US ...
The United States and China are the two obvious contenders for sixth-generation fighter programs—and various European nations ...
India’s scramjet success proves hypersonic strength, but turbine complexity keeps fighter engines a tough challenge.
India already operates 36 Rafales in IAF service, delivered under a 2016 inter-governmental agreement with France. In April ...
Every air force needs its own nimble, lightweight, single-engine fighter jet. For the United States, that's Lockheed Martin's F-16 Fighting Eagle, a fighter jet that's been around since 1979. For ...