No, Russia's new fighter jet can't fly at twice the speed of light

Unless Fox News knows something the rest of us don’t, this was likely an error, and perhaps Mele meant to say “twice the speed of sound,” which many fighter jets are capable of achieving — and, as it happens, is included in an actual headline of a story about this exact aircraft.

But the reporter’s other hosts seemed unfazed by the claim that Russia had an aircraft capable of traveling at speeds on par with science fiction spacecraft. Instead, they were more astounded by the jet’s reported ability to be configured for unmanned flight — which is more believable than the idea that a Russian pilot could hit a button and jump to warp speed in the middle of a dogfight.

“Unpiloted, so you control it by a computer … just like a video game?” Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy asked the reporter.