Japan has selected Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ (MHI) Komaki South Plant in Aichi Prefecture as the national assembly site for its Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) sixth-generation fighter, marking another major milestone in the trilateral defense project with the United Kingdom and Italy.
Fighter Jets
Turkey is pushing to sell its Russian S-400 air defense system to win back access to the American F-35, with Qatar and the UAE named as potential buyers.
Below are the ten most expensive fighter jets ever built, ranked by approximate unit cost, with one strategic bomber included as a benchmark outlier.
Indonesia has officially moved away from its long-standing plan to co-produce the KF-21 Boramae fighter jet with South Korea, marking a significant shift in the country’s defense aviation strategy.
The United Kingdom has cleared a major funding hurdle for the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), paving the way for a new development contract ahead of the Farnborough International Airshow later this month.
US lawmakers revive the F-35 pitch to Spain after the FCAS collapse, as Madrid weighs Turkey’s KAAN fighter instead.
Poland welcomes its first F-35A Husarz fighters into service, becoming NATO’s first eastern flank fifth-gen operator.
USAF F-35A jets arrive at Misawa Air Base in Japan, taking over the Wild Weasel mission for the 35th Fighter Wing.
Germany’s first F-35A Lightning II has reached a major production milestone after receiving its Pratt & Whitney F135-PW-100 engine at Lockheed Martin’s facility near Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), Texas.
From stealth technology and artificial intelligence-powered sensors to massive weapons payloads and supercruise capabilities, modern fighter aircraft represent the pinnacle of military engineering.