Would a few thousand pounds of thrust or a square meter of radar cross section win the next great air battle? In the Pacific’s contested skies, the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor and China’s Chengdu J-20 ...

While wear, tear and environmental impacts on the cockpit's canopy glass don’t affect airworthiness, it impacts the aircraft's low observable and stealth features. U.S. Air Force F-35As of the 388th ...

The F-35 Lightning II canopy closes from the front because of the STVOL variant, which has an exhaust and swivel nozzle behind the pilot's head.

In pursuit of a multirole mission, the F-35’s designers accepted trade-offs that reduced its stealth performance in exchange for significant improvements elsewhere. The US military has two stealth ...