A video of America’s F-35A stealth jet unleashing almost 200 rounds in a matter of seconds has been released, as the latest phase in ground testing gets underway. Hailed as the most expensive…
An X-61 Gremlin Air Vehicle (GAV), an unmanned reconnaissance vehicle developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has been recovered while in mid-flight for the first time, DARPA announced Friday. During…
Move comes after last month’s ‘bitter decision’ to reduce the Vulcan To The Sky Trust team from 22 to eight. The owners of the last airworthy Vulcan bomber have promised the much-loved Cold…
A Chinese fighter jet came within 20 feet of a U.S. air force plane in the contested South China Sea last week and forced it to take evasive maneuvers to avoid a fatal…
Almost a decade since we learned of the stealth Black Hawks used in the Bin Laden raid, we have seen no images of them or of their lineage, until now. We are constantly…
Britain’s only flying Cold War Vulcan bomber will take its final flight next year before being grounded because of soaring restoration costs. After a multimillion-pound fundraising scheme, Avro Vulcan XH558 was restored in…
It’s the most expensive weapon in history but America’s F-35 stealth jet has been outperformed by a 40-year-old F-16 jet in a dogfight. A mock air battle was held over the Pacific Ocean…
A rare Second World War fighter plane will return to the skies above Cambridgeshire this weekend in a recreation of the battles fought over occupied Europe 70 years ago. The P-47 Thunderbolt has…
A Polish plane nearly crashed after a Russian fighter jet intercepted it in a series of ‘aggressive and dangerous’ manoeuvres, according to Poland’s border force. The Polish surveillance plane, an L-410 Turbolet, was…
RAF Typhoon fighter jets have taken off from a regular road in a drill to test if they can outmanoeuvre the enemy. Two frontline jets took off and landed on the single lane…
In an era of increasing global instability and the ever-evolving landscape of defense requirements, the quest for the perfect blend of capability and cost has sparked a burgeoning market for civil helicopters adapted…
Everyone sings the praises of the A-10 Thunderbolt II, and rightly so. There’s something that’s eternally cool about a military attack jet that’s built more around its cannon than its wings or engine….
A squadron of foreign fighter jets have rattled Sydneysiders’ windows after they tore across the sky on Tuesday. The eight jets, which form the Republic Of Korea Air Force’s (ROKAF) Black Eagles aerobatic…
The Air Force wants the highly-efficient blended wing body demonstrator, which could inform various future projects, to be flying by 2027. The U.S. Air Force says it has picked aviation startup JetZero to…
Update – September 19, 2023: The crash site of the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II that went missing over South Carolina on September 17, 2023 has been located – and its produced more…
The Hughes XF-11 was a prototype reconnaissance aircraft intended to be operated by the US Army Air Forces (USAAF). It was partially designed by Howard Hughes, and his company built just two units….