The military has increased the number of secret fixed-wing attack aircraft and armed MQ-9 Reaper drones, according to two ...

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 ...

Modern air power is not defined solely by the most advanced aircraft, but by the platforms that consistently deliver results across a wide range of missions. Within the United States Air Force, a ...

With their low cost-per-shot and relatively deep magazines, laser weapons and other directed energy systems could potentially ...

Surface-to-air missiles invalidated speed and altitude as reliable survivability strategies faster than planners anticipated. Interceptor missions vanished as strategic threats shifted from bombers to ...

The USAF is looking at updated legacy systems, next-generation manned systems, and futurist autonomous systems for its future ...

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 ...

This article examines the key factors that led to the engineering decision, such as structural trade-offs, mission profile, ...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and the U.S. Air Force recently conducted a flight test focused on advancing autonomous capabilities for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, using an MQ-20 Avenger ...

The fastest military aircraft ever built—from the SR-71 Blackbird to the MiG-25 Foxbat—were designed during the Cold War to outrun missiles, evade defenses, and intercept threats at extreme speeds ...

From parade floats to carrier decks, China’s collaborative combat aircraft programme is advancing on multiple fronts. But beneath the variety of airframes lies a simpler truth: the real competition is ...

Airmen operated Auduril's YFQ-44A jet-powered combat drone, which could someday fly alongside piloted fighters.