Given the relatively low costs of drones -- already far cheaper than the costs of a fighter jet and of training a fighter jet pilot -- armed drones will play a key role in future conflicts.
As the most expensive defence project ever undertaken starts to come to fruition, the BBC has been given exclusive access to the world's most advanced fighter jet, the Joint Strike Fighter or F-35.
We are taking a closer look at the F-35 fighter jet at Lockheed Martin's Fighter Demonstration Center just outside our nation's capital, but, being in the middle of a corporate complex, there's no actual Lightning II on hand.
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An Israeli air force engineer even produced a matkot paddle made of fighter jet alloys.
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In June the defence minister flew on board a Russian-built supersonic Sukhoi-30 fighter jet.
The flight path asset allocation model resembles the flight path of a fighter jet.
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It was blamed on a mid-air collision with a Libyan MiG 23 fighter jet.
For a start, Mr Tamogami, it transpires, took Mr Motoya for a joy-ride in a fighter jet.
Last year at this time, we had proposed canceling the F-22 fighter jet.
There seemed to be no contact with the world apart from the roar of a jet fighter looping Manhattan.
However, the initial US response might well include missile and fighter jet strikes.
They can also significantly reduce civilian casualties: a drone strike often replaces a big bomb dropped from a fighter jet.
On this carrier the runout (the area from where a fighter jet lands to where it stops) is 340 feet.
In the past few weeks China has made a splash with progress on an anti-ship missile and a stealth fighter jet.
The program was halted due to high unit cost of F-22 and delays in Russian and Chinese fifth-generation fighter jet programs.
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After the impact, Osborn said, he saw the parachute of the Chinese pilot and his smoking fighter jet plunging toward the South China Sea.
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In 1996, while trying to purchase a T-38 jet fighter, Oracle Corp.
Until now, the main French effort against the rebels has been aerial bombardment of their positions using jet fighter planes and helicopters.
In fact, there is a wide gap between the skill sets required for flying a fighter jet and those for a commercial aircraft.
When his MiG fighter jet crashed in Kashmir on May 27, the Indian Air Force pilot parachuted into enemy territory and was taken prisoner.
In 1989, a U.S. fighter jet destroyed a U.S. satellite by firing a modified air-to-air missile into space from an altitude of 80, 000 feet.
The U.S. Air Force is currently test-flying an optionally piloted supersonic drone over the Gulf of Mexico based on a modified F-16 fighter jet.
By contrast, a jet fighter plane travels at speeds of Mach 1 to Mach 2, and the Space Shuttle blasts into space at Mach 25.
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"In a worst-case scenario, you could eject from a fighter jet, " says senior CAL flight instructor Chou Yu-sen, who once trained F-104 and T33 combat pilots.
Mastering original jet fighter technology is a challenge and learning about one of the hottest battles of the Cold War makes it a simulation worth flying.
In 1998, an American fighter jet clipped a ski lift cable sending a gondola of 20 passengers to their death in the Italian Dolomite mountain range.
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It would be akin to spending billions to research and build a new fighter jet and then realizing that we have no fuel to fly it.
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At Smiley's, you get a 750hp dirt dragster that has about the highest power-to-weight ratio of anything this side of a fighter jet (see box, p. 153).
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