Venezuela’s S-125 anti-air missile system is positively ancient today—yet the same model was unexpectedly able to shoot down ...

Employing a variety of air assets from 13 nations and seemingly striking targets with precision and impunity, NATO enjoyed overwhelming air superiority ...

Lockheed’s YF-22 wasn’t the inevitable winner of the Air Force’s Advanced Tactical Fighter contest. -Northrop’s YF-23 “Black Widow II” offered cleaner stealth shaping, stronger supersonic cruise, and ...

Key Points and Summary - Built in secrecy at Area 51 in the 1990s, Boeing’s YF-118G “Bird of Prey” was a low-cost stealth demonstrator that flew just 38 sorties before the Pentagon revealed it in 2002 ...

The US framed its 1989 Panama invasion as a targeted capture of a rogue head of state wanted for drug trafficking ...

Military airframer Lockheed Martin has unveiled the first F-35A stealth fighter bound for Finland. Displayed for the first time on 16 December at Lockheed’s main F-35 assembly site in Fort Worth, ...

The U.S. maintains Cold War weapons in storage for surge capacity, spare parts, allied transfers, and emergency mobilization. F-117 stealth aircraft remain in flyable storage and are occasionally used ...

There’s an argument to be made that Buck Knives is the most important American knifemaking brand in operation, perhaps ever. At the very least, the brand is among the most influential, even if only ...

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Wars come and go, but some aircraft never seem to leave the fight. While new platforms cycle through development and ...

The absence of FCAS from the agenda underlines how sharply relations have deteriorated between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron ...

Subsidiaries of Russian state-owned manufacturer Rostec have begun flight testing a new turbofan for the Sukhoi Su-57 fighter, which the conglomerate describes as a fifth-generation engine with ...