The United States has used several different insignia on its military aircraft throughout its aviation history, and some have ...

Twenty years prior to 1969 most air forces had been flying piston-engined fighters essentially no different from those of ...

The X-1’s fuselage was designed to resemble a .50 caliber bullet—one of the only shapes known to have stable flight at ...

Three fighters. One war. From the stubby F4F Wildcat that held the line in 1942, to the deadly F6F Hellcat that crushed the Zero, and finally the lightning-fast F8F Bearcat that arrived just as the ...

Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage.

The P-38 is the only flying example of the model in Europe and an outstanding example of the twin-tail fighter aircraft ...

U.S. and South Korean forces have recovered an Air Force drone that crashed last month off the country’s western coast, the ...

Reginald "Crash" Harrison lived through four plane crashes in WWII and lived to talk about it. He died in Canada recently at ...

The United States Air Force maintains a complex network of installations designed to project air power and support global ...

Guerrilla warfare has always thrived on tools that turn weakness into opportunity. Across jungles, mountains, and dense ...

North Vietnamese negotiators walked out of peace talks in Paris on Dec. 13, 1972. They had just rejected American proposals ...

Japan-China tensions have surged after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan and new Chinese accusations over a military base on Mageshima Island. The dispute deepened as Tokyo accused ...