The following is the Nov. 28, 2025, Congressional Research Service in focus report U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat ...

Over the last 122 years of flight, there certainly hasn’t been a lack of innovation. Engineers, designers, and pilots all […] ...

Northrop Grumman has unveiled Project Talon, a combat drone developed with Scaled Composites to compete in the Air Force ...

READING, England–Defense ministers from the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) partner nations have reaffirmed ambitions to get the design and development of the future combat aircraft on contract by ...

Boeing’s developmental sixth-generation F-47 fighter will take to the skies in 2028. The airframer was selected to deliver the USA’s first-ever sixth-generation fighter in March, beating out Lockheed ...

F-15E and A-10 retirements, accelerates F/A-XX and F-47 oversight, and demands a concrete plan for post-E-6B nuclear ...

As fighter jets have grown more and more expensive, pressure has mounted on modern air forces to enable those aircraft to ...

The YFQ-42 becomes the first of the U.S. Air Force’s new Collaborative Combat Aircraft to enter flight testing. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced on Aug. 27, 2025, that its YFQ-42A ...

The autonomous YFQ-42A takes off from an undisclosed location in California. (Photo courtesy of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems) General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has begun flight testing of ...

The Air Force's agile combat employment concept would prepare units to operate from dispersed, austere bases in a war against a major adversary like China.

The race to develop 6th-generation aircraft is no longer a future vision – it’s now a defining force behind U.S. defense strategy. With cutting-edge platforms like the B-21 Raider, the F-47 and the ...

Partners are becoming concerned about the FCAS overshooting the 2045 deadline, as bids for the Phase 2, which will produce a demonstrator aircraft, are yet to be announced. Reflecting the growing ...