Never was aeronautical engineering more significant than in the six years of the second world war. A deadly technological ...

Fighter aircraft have always been the cutting edge of air combat. Whether ripping through the skies of Europe in World […] ...

American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller, more agile MiGs and losing more often than anyone expected. The decline ...

When the Korean War began in 1950, the United States entered a new era of air combat it barely understood. Pilots trained for the piston-engine battles of World War II suddenly faced jet fighters that ...

World War II was fought across land, sea, and air. Soldiers and tanks battled on the ground, bombers and escort planes struck in the air, and battleships clashed at sea. WWII proved the dominance of ...

Soon after the invention and mass adoption of airplanes, governments started used them for war. Suddenly, soldiers had to watch out for flying machines spraying hot lead and dropping bombs. However, ...

Ukraine’s elite “Ghost” unit attacked a Russian Black Sea fleet, destroying a pair of amphibious war planes for the first time in the war, officials said Monday. Ukraine’s military intelligence ...

A Sudanese military aircraft has crashed while attempting to land in eastern Sudan. All the crew members were killed.

Many Cold War-era aircraft—particularly bombers and cargo planes—continue to serve in air forces around the world due to their ruggedness, simple design, and proven longevity. The world powers are in ...

Military aircraft come in all shapes and sizes, but these days nearly all of them have one thing in common: they are painted grey. Boring, monotonous grey. But military aviation has a colorful history ...

Aircraft carriers are the largest and arguably most important military naval vessels in the world. Effectively a floating air base, aircraft carriers play an indispensable role in power projection and ...