US Air Force airmen tested Anduril’s YFQ-44A combat drone at Edwards AFB, advancing semi-autonomous “wingman” warfighting ...
The time when piloted fighter jets and self-flying drones will pair up to execute military missions is nearly upon us. We kind of knew that, but it took an announcement concerning the F-22 Raptor and ...
Fighter plane tails were dramatically reshaped after the advent of “fly-by-wire” controls, rendering the aircraft’s stability irrelevant. What’s in a tail? The tail of a fighter aircraft, specifically ...
As time has gone on, innovations in fighter jet technology have made “bubble cockpits” steadily more useful to pilots—and more expensive to maintain. To an untrained eye, the canopy of a fighter jet ...