Aircraft designed for permissive airspace traded stealth and self-defense for loiter time and firepower. Modern SAMs and fighters can sideline or eliminate these platforms once air superiority is lost ...

Crew skill and tactical adaptation determined combat aircraft effectiveness more than design quality across multiple conflicts. The F-4 Phantom achieved high kill ratios only after Top Gun training ...

Key Points and Summary - After years of embarrassing failures, including fires and a sinking dry-dock, Russia is reportedly close to scrapping its only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov.

The world's largest aircraft, the Antonov An-225 Mriya (NATO name Cossack), has been confirmed to be destroyed in the fighting in Ukraine, according to Ukraine Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro ...

There are an unending number of interesting facts about the SR-71 Blackbird, probably the coolest aircraft ever produced by any air force, anywhere in the world. It’s the only airframe made of 85% ...