How NASA's F-15 ACTIVE program tested thrust vectoring and adaptive controls to improve performance of future high-performance aircraft.

While Moscow has determined who will build the Sukhoi Su-35 engine, a bigger prize still looms. The Ufa Engine Production Plant (UMPO) is to manufacture 96 Lyulka-Saturn AL-41F-1S ...

Thrust vectoring—essentially redirecting the plane’s exhaust flow—allows modern fighters to quickly change direction, giving them an edge in close combat. Thrust vectoring nozzles are one of the most ...

Can pure agility outperform invisibility? In the dynamic chessboard of air combat, Russia’s Su-35 and China’s J-35 embody two diametrically opposed approaches to fighter design one based on ...

J-20s with conventional engine nozzles at Airshow China in Zhuhai in 2018. Credit: Yan Siming/International Aviation. BEIJING—China has begun volume production of a second version of the Avic Chengdu ...

A segmented unmanned airship design that uses a single swivelling engine technology enabling vectoring thrust has completed a series of flight tests. The non-rigid segmented lighter-than-air unmanned ...

Barnstorming is rare at aerospace trade shows these days, but the thrust-vectoring RSK MiG-29M OVT fighter has rekindled the air display spirit with an arresting flying demonstration. The double ...