Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. polikarpov Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the ...

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

The Crusader was active during the Vietnam War, ‘scoring’ 19 air-to-air victories for three losses, the best ratio of any US ...

In military aviation, raw speed is no longer a benchmark for domination over the ...

As terrible recent conflicts have shown, the fighter aircraft is far from dead and can prove vital for a nation’s survival. The most modern fighters can shoot down an enemy aircraft at a range of 100 ...

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The United States has built almost all of the world’s most expensive aircraft—typically for niche roles such as stealth bombing or electronic warfare. Modern military aircraft are engineering ...

Combat aircraft often take decades to design and are based on strategic assumptions that rarely align with actual future conflicts. Many Cold War interceptors designed for nuclear bomber threats ...

The B-52H has flown for over six decades because no aircraft matches its payload, range, and flexibility. Most Cold War-era platforms survived by adapting to new missions rather than becoming obsolete ...

The US was the first to develop stealth military jets and is now working to develop the next generation of ultra-stealthy ...