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What if the USSR hadn’t collapsed? What might the successor to the legendary American A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft have looked like?
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The collapse of the Soviet Union brought an end to numerous fascinating Soviet defense projects. A lack of funding, the breakdown of industrial cooperation, ...

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Air Power of the Sleeping Tiger. What Indonesia’s Future SE-7 Astrapia AEW&C Aircraft Could Look Like
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Indonesia is rarely seen as a future great power, even though it possesses almost everything required to become one: a huge population, a growing economy, ...

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The era of pilots is coming to an end. The new MiG-41 will fly without a pilot on board due to extreme g-forces.
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The author of this article, posted on the “One and a Half Engineers” Zen channel, has once again raised the perennial topic of the future Russian MiG-41 ...

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One aircraft to replace all classes. What will the future American C-177 Zeus multi-role aircraft be like?
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The days of heroic aerial battles, in which pilots engaged in dogfights relying on speed, maneuverability, and the firepower of their onboard weapons, are ...

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Will THIS follow the F-47? What the incredible seventh-generation AF-72 fighter will be like.
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No one has seriously moved on to seventh-generation combat aircraft yet. And that is perfectly understandable: even the final shape of the sixth generation has ...

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America’s 1980s Arsenal Plane That Never Was: General Dynamics F/A-111X Megalodon
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When people talk about the “arsenal plane” concept today, they usually imagine a large aircraft operating at a relatively safe distance from the enemy while ...

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Russian military transport aircraft following the Il-100 “Slon.” The Russian successor to the Mriya will have an even greater payload capacity than the Soviet original.
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Yesterday I published an article that offered a look at Russian aircraft from the 1940s and 1950s of the 21st century—and perhaps even the second half of the ...

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What If Sweden Finally Decides to Build a Fifth-Generation Fighter? Meet the SAAB JA-70 GHIDORA
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Saab and Sweden itself can be considered something of a unique phenomenon in the modern aerospace industry. Designing and manufacturing advanced combat ...

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What if the F-117A Nighthawk had a successor? The F/A-118E Night Wasp stealth strike fighter
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Historically, the world's first true stealth aircraft, the F-117A Nighthawk, was a machine of compromises. In pursuit of revolutionary radar invisibility, its ...

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The legend returns. What will the modern descendant of the Mustang—a UAV and a sports plane all in one—be like?
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The North American P-51 Mustang is rightly considered one of the greatest fighter planes of World War II. Its range, speed, maneuverability, and reliability ...

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