Northrop Grumman is teasing us again with another glimpse of its candidate for the US Navy's F/A-XX fighter program. The ...

Maybe the best tail is no tail at all provided your engines and algorithms are good enough. That heresy, embedded in the late-1990s X-44 MANTA study, defied decades of fighter design conventional ...

The F-14 Tomcat first entered service with the Navy in 1974, and Grumman built 712 in total. Of these, 632 were for the US ...

Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage. The wing of a fighter ...

In retrospect, the ND-102 was too much for the Germans to handle. Yet the lessons learned from this program influenced some of America’s most important warplanes of the last 30 years. It is the ...