Modern military fighter planes today are built with versatility in mind. It's more cost-effective and efficient to have one plane that serves multiple roles, but it wasn't always that way. The ...

A Mach 3 interceptor once fired a missile from 75,000 feet and hit a target near the ground, a Cold War feat that still ...

From cannons to rockets to nuclear-armed ordnance, the F-89 seemed a formidably armed interceptor, protecting North America in the early years of the Cold War from Soviet bomber fleets coming over the ...

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It's an anti-drone interceptor that appears to be a miniature version of a fifth-generation fighter plane. What's more, it's supposed to pack the VTOL lift fan and direct thrust technology developed ...

A notional rendering of Lockheed Martin's Next-Generation Interceptor. (Artist rendering courtesy of Lockheed Martin). Lockheed and its Aerojet Rocketdyne partner completed the preliminary design ...

Lockheed Martin is set to increase manufacturing of the PAC-3 MSE interceptor to over 2,000 a year. (U.S. Army) The Pentagon has reached an agreement with Lockheed Martin to increase manufacturing of ...