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Sweden's Saab JAS-39 Gripen E Costs About $4,700 to $9,900 per Flight Hour Against $38,000 to $42,000 for an F-35A and Up to $68,000 for an F-22 Raptor. It Has No Stealth Airframe, and a Handful of Conscripts With 1 Technician Can Rearm It on a Public Road in Under 20 Minutes.
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (559+ words) A small country facing a much larger neighbor cannot outspend its way to air power. Everything about the JAS 39 Gripen follows from that one sentence....
The Dassault Rafale Fighter Costs About $16,500 an Hour to Fly and an F-35A Costs About $42,000. The Rafale Is Not Stealthy, and It Is Selling Better Than It Ever Has.
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (657+ words) A Rafale costs roughly $16,500 per flight hour against about $42,000 for an F-35A. Dassault's answer to stealth is not to hide — it is to out-network what it cannot outrun....
Boeing Spent $67,000,000 of Its Own Money Building the YF-118G Bird of Prey Stealth Aircraft. It Flew 38 Times on Landing Gear From a Beech King Air and an Ejection Seat From a Harrier.
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (932+ words) The YF-118G “Bird of Prey” was arguably one of the most unique, best-looking aircraft ever built. If you think it resembled a sci-fi spacecraft from Hollywood, you would not be wrong. The aircraft was named after the Klingon Bird of Prey…...
The US Air Force’s F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Is Fighting In a World It Was Never Designed to Fly In
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (498+ words) Lockheed Martin holds a $10,900,000,000 contract to modernize the F-22 Raptor. Production ended in 2011, so the US Air Force can never build another one to replace a loss....
The ‘Retired’ US Air Force F-117 Nighthawk ‘Stealth Fighter’ Will Now Fly Until 2034 Thanks To China's J-20 and Russia's Su-57
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (851+ words) Fifty-nine were built. Each carried two bombs. The Air Force retired the type in 2008 and still has 45 of them, and intends to keep flying them until at least 2034....
China’s J-20 And J-35A Stealth Fighters Don’t Have To Beat US Military F-22 Raptors And F-35s. Beijing Is Building Enough That They Don’t Need To
1+ week, 1+ day ago (434+ words) China's J-20 and J-35A stealth fighter numbers versus American F-22 and F-35 quality — the 1916 equation that settles it, the factory evidence, the magazine problem, and where the math breaks....
Canada Can Wait Until 2029 to Announce Its F-35 Fighter Decision. The Bigger Problem: It Cannot Wait to Start Flying Them
1+ week, 2+ day ago (580+ words) The review can stay open as long as pilot training at Luke continues, Cold Lake and Bagotville stay near schedule, and the first F-35 stealth fighter aircraft reach Canada in 2028. The danger is when the delay starts touching those....
The US Air Force's New Boeing F-15EX Eagle II Fighter Has Two Problems and It Has Nothing to Do with China or Russia
1+ week, 2+ day ago (454+ words) A new F-15EX Eagle II Pentagon assessment says the enlarged program raises production costs, strains the supply chain and risks obsolescence before the later aircraft are even built....
12,000,000 Hours in the Sky: The US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet Is No Stealth Fighter Like the F-22 or F-35 But Was the Go To Fighter in the Iran War
2+ week, 4+ day ago (515+ words) The Navy's workhorse passed twelve million flight hours in 2025 across the F/A-18 Super Hornet and Growler fleets - a figure no other carrier aircraft in service approaches....
The Navy Estimated $66,100,000,000 for an Aircraft Carrier-based F-22 'Sea Raptor' Fighter. It Developed the F/A-18 Super Hornet for $3,300,000,000 Instead
2+ week, 5+ day ago (469+ words) The F-22 Raptor, the Sea Raptor for US Navy aircraft carriers, was conceived with the AIM-152 long-range air-to-air missile, alongside the HARM and Harpoon. Neither the fighter nor its primary weapon was ever built....