F-15E Strike Eagles, the fastest crewed aircraft in the US Air Force, are designed for air-to-air and air-to-ground combat in all conditions.

The loss of a KC-135 Stratotanker and its six crew members in the skies above Iraq is drawing reaction from one Air Force ...

Military aircraft have set the tempo for technological advancements. What about the airframes that were well ahead of their time?

Had that been all, it would have been nothing worse than an obscure mediocrity, but Blackburn had also made it extremely ...

When Chinese warplanes suddenly stopped flying near Taiwan for nearly two weeks, the silence was both striking and deeply puzzling.

The Cold War produced fighter jets whose shapes, avionics and tactics still echo in today’s stealthy, sensor‑fused designs. From rugged workhorses that armed the United States and Britain to agile ...

Even though the deployment is defensive in nature, it could still be seen by Iran as support for the US-Israeli air offensive.

For air-campaign planners, the first order of business is destroying or at least neutralizing the enemy’s integrated ...

Many people said footage actually showed a decoy drawing of an F-14 Tomcat, but we were not immediately able to verify that.

“The US has been bombing drawings of F-14s this entire time lol,” a viral social media post said.

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The United States and Canada scrambled multiple aircraft to intercept and track five Russian military planes flying near Alaska on Thursday. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said ...