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China Shocked : This is New America's Killer F-15EX Fighter jet (Credits- US Military)

Meet the most fascinating part of the F-35: The $400,000 helmet (Credits- Military TV)

WHAT OLD WARPLANE WILL BECOME THE USAF'S NEW 'FLYING ARSENAL? || 2021 (CREDITS- WARTHOG DEFENSE)

 

Why America's Enemies Still Fear the F-15 Eagle ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Kyle Mizokami)

USAF F-15 Strike Eagle ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / USAF) Source- The National Interest Author- Kyle Mizokami For nearly three decades, the F-15 Eagle fighter was considered the undisputed king of the skies. Until the debut of its replacement, the F-22 Raptor, the F-15 was the U.S. Air Force’s frontline air superiority fighter. Even today, a modernized Eagle is still considered a formidable opponent, and manufacturer Boeing has proposed updated versions that could keep the airframe flying for the better part of a century. The F-15 traces its roots to the air war in Vietnam, and the inauspicious showing of American Air Force and Navy fighters versus their North Korean counterparts. Large, powerful American fighters, designed to tackle both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions, were performing poorly against their smaller, less powerful—but more maneuverable—North Vietnamese counterparts. The 13:1 kill ratio American fliers enjoyed in the Korean War dropped

The F-35 Stealth Fighter: Too Good For War Games? ( Source- The National Inerest / Author- David Axe)

F-35 A ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / USAF) Source- The National Interest Author- David Axe It’s no secret that we at War Is Boring are skeptics when it comes to the F-35 Lightning II. The new, radar-evading, “fifth-generation” warplane is years late, over-budget and — by virtue of its many, sometimes contradictory missions — represents a design compromise, meaning it’s okay at lots of tasks but excels at none of them. Still, the U.S. military plans to replace nearly all of its current tactical jets with as many as 2,400 F-35s at a total program cost, including maintenance, of around $1 trillion. The U.S. Air Force, one of the F-35’s main proponents, is understandably optimistic about the single-engine, supersonic fighter — at least in public. Perhaps the strongest recent endorsement came from William Redmond, the executive director of the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In an unclassified presentation, Redmo

The F-35 Stealth Fighter's Dirty Little Secret Is Now Out in the Open ( Source- The National Interest / Author- David Axe)

USAF F-35 ( Image credits- VOA) Source- The National Interest Author- David Axe The U.S. Senate just confirmed what an Air Force general hinted at in February 2016 — and which should have been obvious for years to close observers of U.S. air power. The Joint Strike Fighter program is not developing one, common warplane for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps and the air arms of America’s closest allies. No, the Joint Strike Fighter is actually three different plane designs sharing a basic cockpit, engine and software and a logistical network. The Air Force’s F-35A, the Marines’ F-35B and the Navy’s F-35C should, in all fairness, be the F-35, F-36 and F-37. “Despite aspirations for a joint aircraft, the F-35A, F-35B and F-35C are essentially three distinct aircraft, with significantly different missions and capability requirements,” the Senate stated in its version of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2017. Before the act becomes law, the Se

The Case for the Centuryfortress: Defining the B-52J ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Col Mike “Starbaby” Pietrucha)

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / USAF) Source- The Diplomat Author- Col Mike “Starbaby” Pietrucha It seems increasingly likely that there will be a B-52 flyby for the retirement of both the B-1 Lancer and the B-2 Spirit. The venerable bomber, which first flew in 1952, remains the primary component of the USAF’s bomber force for both nuclear and conventional missions. Lacking the stealth of the B-2 and the speed of the B-1, the B-52 remains a frontline combat aircraft because of its exceptional range, unmatched versatility, and flexible payload options. It is debatable whether today’s aviation industry could re-create an airplane with this essential mix of capabilities, but a fully modernized B-52, in combination with the new Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B), would provide the USAF with an asymmetrical advantage over both China and Russia that neither is likely to match. Far from being obsolete, the Stratofortress could well serve into the 205

Why Is America's Lethal F-117 Stealth Fighter Back in the Sky? ( Source- The National Interest / Author- David Axe)

USAF F-117  Night Hawk ( Source- Wikimedia Commons / Author- Staff Sgt Aaron Allmon II) Source- The National Interest Author- David Axe The U.S. Air Force officially retired its 52 surviving F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighters in 2008, transferring their radar-evading attack mission to B-2 bombers, F-22s and — eventually — F-35s. The Air Force claimed it would preserve the F-117s for future use, but it’s possible most of the Nighthawks actually wound up in a landfill inside the Air Force’s highly secure Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. But the flying branch has held on to at least two of the sensor-dodging F-117s, which first entered service in the early 1980s. Amateur plane-spotters packing powerful cameras have photographed and videotaped F-117s flying over the desert test range and taxiing on a remote runway, sometimes singly and sometimes in pairs. The most recent snapshot of F-117s in flight are dated July 22 and can be found here. Why would the Air Force wa