Dozens of fighter jets were canceled, buried, or destroyed not because they failed, but because they were too advanced, too ...

In military aviation, raw speed is no longer a benchmark for domination over the ...

As fighter jets have grown more and more expensive, pressure has mounted on modern air forces to enable those aircraft to carry out multiple distinct missions. The term “multirole fighter” is thrown ...

Which aerospace giant will claim the throne for supremacy in fighter jet production?

The continent of Europe has created some of the most capable military aircraft in history, indeed the first combat action by an aeroplane was in Italian service. In the First World War, all of the ...

The Air Force received its first T-7 Red Hawk, a new aircraft for training pilots. The T-7 Red Hawk will replace the 60-year-old T-38 Talon. The aircraft will be used to teach pilots to operate a ...

“Stand-off” range is the range an aircraft must remain away from its target to avoid putting itself in danger—a vital consideration in modern air combat.

The B-52H has flown for over six decades because no aircraft matches its payload, range, and flexibility. Most Cold War-era platforms survived by adapting to new missions rather than becoming obsolete ...

Turkey’s unmanned fighter, Bayraktar Kizilelma, became the first drone in the world to strike a jet from long range, in a successful test over the Black Sea this week. "For the first time in the world ...

Combat aircraft often take decades to design and are based on strategic assumptions that rarely align with actual future conflicts. Many Cold War interceptors designed for nuclear bomber threats ...