The AN/APG-85 AESA radar system could enter service by mid-2028—ending a shameful period of aircraft being delivered with ...

Avionics equipment typically accounts for around one-third of the total purchase cost of a new fighter, and with budget pressures currently being felt more acutely than ever by many, buyers are ...

The U.K.’s future fighter jet, Tempest, is being designed around a new radar system capable of collecting up to 10,000 times more data than earlier radar systems—then analyzing it aboard the airplane ...

Advanced U.S. fighter jets flying overseas without the most up-to-date onboard radar. This scenario could play out because of a lack of an obscure but critical metal embedded in radars: gallium. In ...

In the past, the main way for fighter jets to avoid radar was to fly below it, but the development of look-down radars able to pick out fighter jets from the clutter of the ground has dramatically ...

Chinese scientists may have found a way to turn one of the biggest weaknesses of fighter jets into a strength. For years, radar has remained one of the biggest fears that military aircraft have to ...

Sudan, Egypt or Turkey could be the first MENA region customers for the Chengdu/Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) JF-17 fighter, which is making its Western air show debut at Farnborough. The ...

The companies building the UK's Tempest sixth-generation fighter aircraft have revealed some of the technological concepts that it will incorporate, including a radar system designed to handle as much ...

LIG Nex1 blocks of TRMs from phase C (left) and phase D (right), with a business card for scale. The phase C block is deeper. Credit: Bradley Perrett/AW&ST BEIJING—LIG Nex1 is this year beginning a ...

Back in 1952, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) started flying a monster of a machine called the B-52 Stratofortress. Designed at a time when the U.S. and Soviet Russia were at each other's throats, it was ...

Saab has begun flight testing a new multi-mode X-band active electronically scanned array (AESA) fighter radar being offered as an addition to the company’s PS-05/A radar family. Saab is using a ...