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The F-22 Raptor might be the best fighter on Earth and only America can fly them

In 1998, Congressman David Obey introduced a single-page amendment that quietly prevented America’s most advanced stealth ...

F-22 stealth meets F-15 range in the F-47, the 6th-generation fighter the USAF says changes air combat forever

The stealthy fighter will offer some exceptional capabilities.
The National Interest

The Navy’s Expectations for the F/A-XX Fighter Are Rising. So Is Its Price Tag.

Chief of Naval Operations Daryl Caudle stressed that the sixth-gen fighter jet was urgently needed to replace the US Navy’s existing fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornets and EA-18G Growlers. The US Navy ...
Stars and Stripes

First US advanced fighters arrive for permanent duty at air base in Japan

A contingent of fifth-generation stealth fighters arrived at Misawa Air Base in northeastern Japan over the weekend, the first replacements the Air Force pledged for the F-16 Fighting Falcons ...
The New York Times

U.S. Sent F-22 Fighter Jets to Israel, Official Says

Videos show a dozen F-22 Raptors left Britain on Tuesday, and flight tracking data indicates they flew toward the Middle East. By Christoph Koettl Aaron Boxerman Sanjana Varghese and Eric Schmitt The ...
Wall Street Journal

The Phantom Stealth Fighter That Exposes Europe’s Deep Divisions Over Defense

It was billed as the answer to high-tech U.S. stealth fighters. Instead, an ambitious pan-European project has become a case study into some of what has gone wrong with the region’s defense push. The ...