It checked every technical box the Air Force asked for, but even being a high-performing, futuristic stealth jet wasn't enough when politics and cost favored the other guy. The YF-23 didn't fail.

The trio of engine exhausts is arranged in a petal design – similar to the United States’ experimental YF-23 aircraft in the 1980s – which is said to provide better management of airflow ...

For the second time in just over a week, a U.S. Navy fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, a defense official confirmed to USA TODAY. A F/A-18 ...

The U.S. Navy has lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet in the Red Sea—its second in just over a week—after a failed landing attempt on the USS Harry S. Truman on Tuesday. Four people familiar with ...

What To Know All U.S. service members aboard the USS Harry S. Truman have been accounted for and are safe after a fighter jet, an F/A-18E Super Hornet, fell overboard into the Red Sea, officials ...

China continues its work with high profile aircraft designs, as the so-called J-36 "sixth-generation" fighter continues to mount sorties in the skies above Chengdu.

The YF-23 was Northrop’s radical stealth fighter prototype, built to dominate the skies—but despite being faster and stealthier than the YF-22, it ultimately lost the contract.

(NewsNation) — The new F-47 fighter jet announced by President Donald Trump is said to be “the most advanced, lethal and adaptable fighter ever developed,” according to Gen. David W. Allvin ...

The Successor The F-47 is seen as the future replacement for the F-22, which, despite being older than the F-35, remains at the forefront of U.S. Air Force operations. In 1991, Lockheed Martin’s ...

On Friday, President Donald Trump announced that Boeing would be tasked with building the U.S. Air Force's sixth-generation fighter jet. The contract competition was fierce, with Boeing competing ...

The Air Force ordered the F-22 to be an air superiority fighter with a "first-shot, first-kill" capability. The military ordered fewer than 200 of the fifth-generation fighters, which entered ...