The Martin P6M SeaMaster was a jet-powered Navy seaplane built for nuclear strike missions, but shifting strategy and new ...

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 ...

Next time you’re eating a sandwich on your holiday flight, pause to think about something. The aircraft type you are flying in may have well have gone to war, spied or tested deadly laser weapons or ...

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 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 ...