Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter jet is one of the world's top stealth aircraft. But it isn't impossible to spot.

The monopoly superpowers have had on building the most advanced fighter jets looks to be ending with South Korea's KF-21 ...

More than a decade in the making, the Su-57 promised to redefine Russian air dominance—but reality has been more complicated.

A Russian Su-35 violated Estonian airspace on May 13, 2025, to disrupt efforts to inspect a ghost fleet tanker, escalating ...

China’s J-20 stealth fighter, nicknamed “Mighty Dragon,” might have Soviet roots. -The J-20 shares striking design ...

Examples of fifth generation fighter jets include America's F-35 Lightning II and F-22 Raptor, China's Chengdu J-20 and Russia's Sukhoi ... will be dominated by stealth technology.

Twelve countries operate one of the four models that can claim status as 5th-generation fighters. Those elite ranks are set to grow with two new entrants: Turkey's Kaan and South Korea's KF-21.

But Turkey's expulsion from the F-35 program in 2019 over its purchase of Russian air defense ... engines (the same General Electric jet engines on F-15s and F-16s), for instance, were never designed ...

The Soviet Union and Russian Federation even built bombers that exceeded Mach 2. Some of their fighter jets, like the MiG-31, could reach Mach 3.