Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In military aviation, raw speed is no longer a benchmark for domination over the skies. Power has evolved into a multidimensional ...

Gunship pilots test-fired APEX munitions, designed to pulverize targets with shrapnel.

A new consulting firm report emphasizes the growing costs and problems of sustaining advanced aircraft.

Across the United States military, some of the most decisive combat missions are still flown by aircraft that first took to the skies when slide rules and vacuum tubes were standard tools. America’s ...

Military aircraft criticized for cost overruns and technical problems often proved effective once tested in actual combat conditions. Peacetime evaluations missed critical traits like survivability ...

The commanding general of the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence discusses the impact of unmanned systems on U.S. Army aviation and combined arms.

The continent of Europe has created some of the most capable military aircraft in history, indeed the first combat action by an aeroplane was in Italian service. In the First World War, all of the ...

Military aviation history is filled with aircraft that achieved extraordinary performance yet never became widely fielded.

Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the back foot by the German invasion on 22 June 1941. On the first day alone, an ...

The rapid buildup to the biggest, baddest aircraft carriers started with the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor.

Military aircraft are typically judged by specifications and engineering elegance. But sometimes combat history repeatedly shows that those measures can be misleading. Some aircraft entered service ...

No fewer than three United States military aircraft landed in Nigeria between Thursday and Friday, findings by Sunday PUNCH have revealed.The aircraft, it was gathered, landed at military bases in ...