BIG AVIATION REPORT

Mon, Sep 21, 2026, 06:07:05 MT

SIMPLE FLYING · DEFENSE

HOW THE EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON STACKS UP AGAINST THE F-15, F-16, & F/A-18 IN 2026...

Four decades after the first F-16s entered service and more than twenty years since the Eurofighter Typhoon joined the RAF, Western fighter aviation finds itself at an unusual crossroads.

SCOTT: Watch the airframe and the training pipeline, not the parade footage. Programs live or die in the schoolhouse.

READ THE STORY AT SIMPLE FLYING...

FRONT PAGE...   6AM EDITION...

***

MORE ON THIS DESK...