The following is the Nov. 28, 2025, Congressional Research Service in focus report U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat ...

AURORA, Colo. — The Air Force’s first two prototype collaborative combat aircraft have received their mission design series designations and will fly this summer, Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Allvin said ...

China’s J-36 is the strangest and most ambitious fighter prototype Beijing has shown yet: a tailless, flying-wing, triple-engine design aimed squarely at sixth-generation air combat. -First spotted in ...

A U.S. Air Force XQ-58A Valkyrie flies over Eglin Air Force Base’s Gulf Test and Training Range. The recent test flight and data collected will inform future air operations and contribute to advanced ...

In early December, USAF F-35A Lightning IIs and F-16 Fighting Falcons took part in agile airpower exercises across the Baltic ...

Few fighters in history match the F-15 Eagle’s record: more than 100 air-to-air kills and zero losses, built across Israeli, ...

The U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff announced that the first two Collaborative Combat Aircraft will be designated YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A, making them the first assets to ever fall under the Unmanned ...

Turkey is accelerating its domestic air‑power push, as it successfully tests a long-range strike by a drone on a jet.

The age of the piloted fighter aircraft may not be over but the US Air Force has shown that it may be time to start collecting the coats, as it has designated two prototype combat drones as official ...

When the Korean War began in 1950, the United States entered a new era of air combat it barely understood. Pilots trained for the piston-engine battles of World War II suddenly faced jet fighters that ...