The United States has the world's most advanced fighter jets, with China also rapidly developing its own advanced ...

Fifth-generation jets are now "the peer-level baseline," a Royal Air Force official said. He said the advanced jets are now the "entry standard" to get the edge in the air "against the most basic ...

Russia and India have reached an advanced technical stage in talks for the licensed production of the Su-57 fifth-generation ...

Lockheed Martin said the US government is interested in its F-35 "fifth-generation-plus" concept. The company wants to use research from its failed six-generation stealth fighter design. The CEO said ...

Nearly half a century after its maiden flight, the F-16 Fighting Falcon, or "Viper" as its pilots call it, continues to be ...

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Raptor plant shuttered in 2011, and Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet assembly will follow suit in 2027, but the others are going strong, with US assembly lines currently cranking out over 300 fighter jets ...

The US and China are considered the two strongest candidates for sixth-generation fighter jet programs, although many European countries are also striving to develop this type of weapon.

Fifth-gen jets like the F-35 are now the bare minimum for seizing even brief control of the skies in modern peer combat, a Royal Air Force officer said this week. "Fifth-generation combat air is not ...