Summary and Key Points: In March 2013, two Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom IIs scrambled to intercept an American MQ-1 Predator ...

U.S. Airmen assigned to the F-22 Raptor Aerial Demonstration Team perform for the Soar and Shore Airshow in Atlantic City, NJ ...

America’s next air war machine is not being built around one “super jet.” It is being rebuilt as a connected family of aircraft, sensors, weapons, drones, tankers, software, and data links that must ...

The F-22's stealth coating remains one of the most effective in the world, even if it is now aging by US standards.

US Air Force F-22s have been spotted with new “stealth pods”—slightly increasing their radar profile, but giving them important new detection capabilities. For the first time in decades, the F-22 ...

The F-22 Raptor is one of the premier fighter jets in the sky and one of the few fifth-generation fighters in active service in 2026. Still, despite its bleeding-edge placement in the United States ...

Kadena Air Base, the US Air Force’s primary airbase on Okinawa, recently retired its fleet of aging F-15 Eagles, but still lacks a permanent replacement. Approximately a dozen F-22 Raptors are now ...

Lockheed Martin has begun producing new F-22 external fuel tanks that it says extend the air superiority fighter’s range but do not hinder its stealth characteristics and aerodynamic performance. New ...