Seventh generation fighters are being designed around a simple, unsettling premise: the human body is becoming the limiting factor in air combat. As engineers push toward hypersonic speeds, ...

Instead of treating a seventh-generation jet as a distant fantasy, some defense thinkers argue that moving beyond the F-22, the F-35, or even the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance effort is ...

Fighter jets remain one of the most important tools in modern military strategy. While new technologies like drones and ...