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It’s been a pretty busy year for the aviators who attend air shows. With most of the restrictions lifted, at least partially, such events were free to be held for the better part of the year, a true delight for the people who crave such demonstrations of aerial skill.
There are so many amazing images showing military hardware in action that we had to dedicate an entire section to them in recent months. Photo of the Day is how we call it, and it's the place where you’ll find wallpaper-like images of military machines, such as the one we have here.
As one of the very few fifth-generation fighter planes in existence, the F-35 Lightning is one of the most impressive machines you can come across in the skies of today’s world. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) knows this, and since it lacks any major conflicts to show the plane’s combat prowess, it seems content in advertising the plane’s capabilities any way it can during air shows.
Rostec Corporation unveiled the new aircraft at MAKS-21 air show in July. The single-engine tactical fighter will cost between $25-$30 million USD
They call them fifth-generation fighter planes, and between the major military powers of the world, namely the U.S., Russia, and China, there are just four of them in existence at the time of writing. Two of those four, the F-22s and F35s, proudly fly under the stars and stripes banner, and the people using them spare no expense when it comes to advertising their capabilities as often as they can.