Scuttling is when a ship's crew intentionally sinks a ship themselves, and it happened a lot during WWII to ensure ships didn ...

The Battle of the Bismarck Sea marked the moment Japan lost its last real chance to control New Guinea. Allied aircraft destroyed a Japanese convoy attempting to reinforce the front, wiping out troops ...

As German paratroopers fought to secure a foothold on Crete, Allied forces launched urgent counterattacks to regain lost ...

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 ...

Pentagon data shows that deadly and costly military aircraft mishaps skyrocketed 55 percent over the past four years, alarming lawmakers, defense analysts, and aviation safety experts. The number of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of major accidents involving military aircraft spiked in 2024, internal Pentagon figures show, and a series of high-profile aviation mishaps with deaths and the loss of ...

The experimental XF-12 Rainbow could take continuous photographs from 8 miles up as it sped cross country in the 1940s.

An F/A-18E makes an arrested landing on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. (MC3 Julia Brockman/Navy) The number of major accidents involving military aircraft ...

Billy Mitchell, a World War I air power commander, warned battleships were obsolete and future wars would be decided in the air. After deadly aviation accidents in 1925, he publicly accused Army and ...

(WAVY) — An exclusive investigation by the Associated Press found the number of serious aviation mishaps in which a military member is either killed or seriously injured has risen rapidly from 2020 ...

A Newsweek map tracks the path of a United States military spy plane flying over the South China Sea near Hainan Island on Thursday, where China has homeported two aircraft carriers. The U.S. Pacific ...

In a rare and deeply moving moment for the Maine Army National Guard, Chief Warrant Officer Five (CW5) Eric Couture ...