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Has China Devised Its Very Own EA-18G Growler? The Growler is one of a small number of military aircraft types dedicated to the task of jamming hostile radars. Heres What You Need to Know: China’s aviation engineers have never been too proud to copy a good idea from abroad. The United States Navy’s EA-18G Growler electronic attack fighters are one of a small number of military aircraft types dedicated to the task of jamming—and potentially destroying—hostile radars that could guide d...

Is Tehran up to the task? Heres What You Need to Know: Iran’s improving air defenses have boosted Tehran’s conventional deterrence. On August 22, Iran unveiled to much fanfare its Bavar-373 mobile long-range air defense system in a Defense Industry Day event attended by President Hassan Rouhani. In a speech, he elucidated at length on the rationale behind the weapon’s nomenclature by comparing it to Russian surface-to-air missiles. “Its number is between 300 and 400. Its 373. In any ca...

The lightweight JF-17 Thunder is capable for its price. Heres What You Need to Know: The JF-17 is designed to employ Chinese weapons on its seven hardpoints. In the 2019 Paris Air Show, Pakistan its lightweight JF-17 Thunder jet fighter it began building a decade ago in conjunction with China. You can see the seven-ton fighter performing maneuvers in this video. Just a few months earlier, Pakistan dispatched what it claimed to be twenty-five JF-17s to launch a lightning strike across the Li...

(This article first appeared in 2016.) The Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker-E is the top Russian air-superiority fighter in service today, and represents the pinnacle of fourth-generation jet fighter design. It will remain so until Russia succeeds in bringing its fifth-generation PAK-FA stealth fighter into production. Distinguished by its unrivaled maneuverability, most of the Su-35’s electronics and weapons capabilities have caught up with those of Western equivalents, like the F-15 Eagle. But while it...

While it is easy to see why Lockheed Martin would be interested in such a deal, it still isn't clear if New Delhi will – and even can – get on board with it.

This specialized F-35 variant was made just for the U.S. Navy and its now carrier-capable.  Heres What You Need to Remember: The F-35C was developed to be the U.S. Navys first low-observable carrier-based aviation platform, and it is replacing the Navys F/A-18C/D Hornets as the carrier strike groups (CSGs) primary offensive fighter. The multirole F-35C can also be employed for close air support, ground-attack missions, and aerial defense of the CSGs. In December 2020 the United States Marine ...

Korea’s New KF-21 Jet Isn’t A Stealth Fighter—But Could Evolve Into One The KF-21 jet’s projected unit price of $65 million is too high to be considered a bargain-bin jet like the Golden Eagle, but about two-thirds the price of advanced non-stealth fighters like the Rafale and Typhoon.  In a ceremony on April 9 attended by President Moon Jae-in, Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) unveiled the prototype of an advanced new indigenous KF-21 Boramae (“Hunting Hawk”) jet fighter at a fa...

Lockheed Martin and Aerojet: A Merger That Will Make America Safer There is no logical reason for this deal to be stopped—although Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, or Pyongyang would be pleased if it were. That simply cannot be allowed to happen. Lockheed Martin’s efforts to acquire Aerojet is an initiative that, not unlike Northrop’s acquisition of Orbital ATK several years ago, is generating clearly unfair comments and criticisms on the basis that it will somehow raise antitrust issues and co...

How the F-16 Can Strike From a Distance (Just Like the F-35) Bringing the radar technology on the F-35 to the F-16 will help the less stealthy aircraft detect and attack enemy aircraft from safer standoff ranges. It may be a 1980s-era fourth-generation fighter jet, yet the Air Force F-16 will fly for years into the future with some newly-integrated technologies from the F-35 stealth fighter jet. These upgrades are part of an ongoing effort to upgrade and sustain the decades-old warplane with n...

Showdown: Is Chinas J-10 Fighter Any Match for Americas F-15 Eagle It would not be an easy victory for either side. But heres what we know about how such a clash would go down.  Heres What You Need to Remember: The F-15 is not a stealthy aircraft and is expected to be used in combat environments in what is called “less contested” environments where the Air Force already has a margin of air superiority over advanced enemy air defenses. The Air Force is revving up electronic warfare upgrades...