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The Air Force’s Mach 2 F-15C/D Fighter Isn’t Going Anywhere
Key Points and Summary – The Air Force will retain select “Platinum” F-15C/Ds for homeland defense even as it fields more ...
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The Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet Is Flexing Its Fighter Muscles
The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet—born in the 1990s to replace aging F-14s and legacy Hornets—heads for its final production run as ...
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Why the U.S. Navy Finally Said No to the F-14 Tomcat
The Navy retired the F-14 Tomcat for five intertwined reasons: crippling upkeep (tens of maintenance hours per flight hour ...
T he US Air Force is moving to keep its F-22 Raptor stealth fighters competitive for another decade. In its latest Fiscal Year 2026 budget, the service requested $90.34 million fo ...
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The Air Force Will Soon Have 32 Additional F-22 Combat Ready ‘Raptor’ Fighters
Key Points and Summary – The Air Force plans to modernize early Block 20 F-22s—once training jets—adding open mission systems, improved stealth coatings, EW upgrades, and AIM-9X/AIM-120D/AIM-260 ...
Remained the high-speed, high-altitude lord of the skies. The latest Air Force addition, the F-15EX, has been pushed hard. The plane’s design is capable of delivering the heavy load, even the ...
Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Air Force is moving forward with a plan to upgrade its oldest, training-only F-22 Raptors (Block 20) to a combat-capable standard. -The move reverses an earlier Air ...
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