Designed to guard the British skies during the tense early years of the Cold War, the Gloster Javelin was large, sophist ...

The Avro Vulcan was a British high-altitude, long-range strategic bomber, renowned for its distinctive, massive delta-wing ...

A secret Cold War-era deal lets British jets shadow Russian bombers when they fly near a vital Atlantic chokepoint A Russian Tu-95 strategic bomber over the Kremlin in Moscow in May 2015.

Instead, it was a standard bomber, and a monstrously potent one at that: during the Falklands War, it was the basis of the devastating Operation Black Buck bombing campaign, the most prolonged ...

While serving as President, Jimmy Carter chose a replacement for the B-52 bomber. He rejected one concept outright, but it became part of history anyway.

If Russian bombers fly near Ireland, they may be intercepted by fighter jets — but not Irish ones. Under a secret agreement between the UK and the Republic of Ireland that dates back more than ...

Ireland occupies a strategic position on the UK's western flank and adjacent to the Greenland-Iceland-UK Gap, a vital maritime chokepoint that the British and other NATO militaries are keen to monitor ...