The Su-57 can reportedly reach speeds of Mach 2 and, also similar to the F-22, operate with supercruise technology, meaning the ability to sustain supersonic speeds without needing afterburners. Here’s What You Need To Remember: Tactically speaking, both the Su-57 and the F-22 are engineered to use stealth, combat maneuverability  and dogfighting capability to address threats which may emerge, should…

NATO pilots that practiced against the German Air Force Fulcrums found that in short-range dogfights at low speeds the MiG-29 was more agile than anything they threw at it. Here’s What You Need to Remember: By the 1990s, Western pilots had ample opportunity to fly MiG-29s as the German Air Force incorporated the MiG-29s of East…

Codenamed the “Felon” by NATO, Russia’s Su-57 stealth fighter has the potential to be a dangerous adversary in the sky as it combines stealth and speed with advanced weapons and state-of-the-art sensors. Codenamed the “Felon” by NATO, Russia’s Su-57 stealth fighter has the potential to be a dangerous adversary in the sky as it combines stealth and…

Prior to the onsite of hostilities in Operation Desert Storm in 1991, quite a few pundits and prognosticators stated that, on-paper at least, the Soviet-designed MiG-29 “Fulcrum” 4th Generation fighter jet should’ve been the rough equal of the U.S. Air Force McDonnell-Douglas F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon in air-to-air combat. Well, that theory didn’t…

Here’s What You Need To Remember: “The B-2 is one of the most game-changing aircraft ever built…and one of the most cost-effective. One B-2 can deliver the punch of an entire aircraft carrier air wing at several orders of magnitude less in operating cost and personnel.” When B-2 stealth bombers attacked Serbia on the opening night…

The forthcoming gathering of Corsairs at AirVenture 2023, prompted us to take a look back at the naval fighter’s film appearances on both the big and the small screen. Some of these performances will be well known to most, while others were new even to this author. Whether actual aircraft featured or their CGI representations,…

Who benefits from the United States making a decision to abandon the F-35 program? Here’s What You Need to Remember: America’s adversaries would like nothing better than for the United States to curtail its buy of the F-35, just like Washington did for the F-22, because there is not an allied or adversary platform in production…

The U.S. Air Force F-22 fleet was prematurely truncated around 169 aircraft following the collapse of the Soviet Union (Washington D.C.) The U.S. Air Force F-22 fleet was prematurely truncated around 169 aircraft following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. The decision was in retrospect regarded as ill-advised and detrimental to the…

The U.S. Army’s AH-64 Apache attack helicopter was originally a 1980s platform, yet upgrades to the Apache have made it an almost entirely new platform, well suited for a modern threat environment. The U.S. Army’s AH-64 Apache attack helicopter was originally a 1980s platform, yet upgrades to the Apache have made it an almost entirely new platform well suited…

Perhaps the White House will offer up F-16s from America’s own stockpiles, a position that the Biden administration has yet to take. So far, the U.S. has announced that it would train pilots at air bases in Arizona and Texas beginning next month. Apart perhaps from the B-17 “Flying Fortress,” no other World War II aircraft…