Fighter jet engines are complex machines that enable aircraft to reach incredible speeds. The modern fighter jet is defined by its engine, which accelerates a tremendous volume of air rearward that it ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron aim to resolve the future of the FCAS programme by year's end. Disagreements over leadership are stalling the €100 billion project ...

A U.S. Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the ...

The F-35 Lightning II: the jet everyone loves to hate… but nobody can ignore. It’s sleek, stealthy, and stuffed with tech — the ultimate 5th-generation fighter jet, or a $1.7 trillion flying disaster?

Footage shows the F/A-18 Hornet jet speeding on the tarmac at the Sultan Ahmad Shah Airport in Kuantan, Malaysia, and lifting off just moments before the engines exploded. Wednesday Season 2 Part 2 ...

A Navy pilot was rescued after a $67 million fighter jet plunged into ocean waters off the Virginia coast Wednesday morning — marking the sixth pricey plane the military has lost in less than a year.

A pilot was rescued after a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet crashed into ocean waters off the coast of Virginia on Wednesday morning, officials said. A little before 10 a.m. ET, a pilot assigned to ...

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