Germany is quietly exploring a potential role in the UK-Italy-Japan GCAP sixth-generation fighter program, signaling serious doubts about the troubled FCAS project.
TowerBoeing wins a $20+ billion Navy contract to develop the F/A-XX, the sixth-generation carrier fighter designed to replace the Super Hornet.
TowerSouth Korea has launched a formal concept study for a sixth-generation fighter, signaling its ambitions to build on the KF-21 Boramae program with a next-era combat aircraft.
TowerSingapore has opened exploratory talks to join GCAP, the UK-Italy-Japan sixth-generation fighter program, one week after Canada joined as observer.
TowerA $6.1 billion Edgewing contract signals the UK-Italy-Japan Global Combat Air Programme has moved from concept into active development of a sixth-generation fighter.
TowerThe UK, Italy, and Japan awarded a £4.6 billion contract to Edgewing on July 3, 2026, moving GCAP from concept to engineering reality.
TowerBoeing's F-47 NGAD fighter has been spotted over Nevada with a reported tailless canard design that signals a fundamental shift in American fighter aerodynamics.
TowerOnly the United States and China have the industrial depth and defense budgets to build a sixth-generation fighter without partners - here's why.
TowerEurope's €116 billion FCAS sixth-generation fighter program collapsed after nine years - not from technical failure, but from an unresolved workshare dispute between Dassault and Airbus.
TowerRussia flew a sixth-gen demonstrator first but sanctions and industrial gaps may leave it a decade behind the US, UK, Japan, and allies.
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