During the Korean War, Royal Navy pilot Peter Carmichael climbed into a Hawker Sea Fury, a piston-engine fighter that looked hopelessly outdated beside the swept-wing MiG-15 dominating the skies. When ...

NATO member Poland scrambled fighter jets overnight as Russia launched strikes on Ukraine, Warsaw's military said on Tuesday. Poland also put ground-based air defense and radar reconnaissance systems ...

Thrust vectoring—essentially redirecting the plane’s exhaust flow—allows modern fighters to quickly change direction, giving them an edge in close combat. Thrust vectoring nozzles are one of the most ...

A civilian plane violated restricted airspace over President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach on Dec. 21, NORAD said. A NORAD F-16 fighter jet intercepted the plane using a "headbutt ...

The Trump administration launched military strikes Friday in Syria against Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two U.S. troops and a U.S.

From the world’s first operational jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262, to experimental aircraft like the Heinkel He 280, Arado 234, and Horten Ho 229, Nazi Germany pushed the limits of aviation ...

This story was published on Jan. 2. For special live coverage of the strikes on Venezuela on Jan. 3 go to our homepage. Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is urging talks with President Trump on ...

Just weeks after defence manufacturer Northrop Grumman unveiled its Talon uncrewed jet, the design has received a major endorsement from the US Air Force (USAF). The service on 22 December gave the ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — A Navy jet that crashed into San Diego Bay within striking distance of homes, hotels, and restaurants had climbed to about 8,000 feet in the air with no one on board after its ...

The US Department of War’s most recent report on Chinese military capabilities highlights significant airpower advances. The report, published annually, offers general updates about Chinese military ...

TAIPEI—China’s steadily expanding military forces conducted large-scale drills around Taiwan this week, dispatching jet fighters, naval ships and coast guard vessels to encircle the island and firing ...

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