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5 Military Aircraft Built Exclusively For The US Air Force

Many advanced military aircraft were never exported – to protect the technology and sometimes because it was beyond other country’s requirements.

The 412th is at the forefront of US Air Force aircraft testing and evaluation, including testing the new NGAD and B-21 Raider aircraft.

While China may still have hundreds of hopelessly out-of-date fighter jets, it is also building modern jets at lightning pace.

Unless the US changes its export criteria, few new countries are left that could plausibly purchase the F-35.

Russia’s ability to produce fighter jets is unlikely to be enough to sustain its existing air force, leading to questions about export potential.

Boeing’s X-32 used an updated Harrier lifting design, while Lockheed Martin went for an all-new system requiring ’17 Miracles.’

Aircraft useful against insurgents and low-intensity conflicts are not necessarily the same as those useful against a peer-on-peer conflict.

While a pre-production prototype, poor workmanship on the Su-57 displayed in China has drawn ridicule.

China’s new J-35A, while superficially resembling and named after the F-35A, is very much a different fighter jet.

The program was eventually canceled.