Most people consider speed to be the ultimate sign of a fighter jet's performance, but you'll be surprised to learn that the F-35, considered one of the most advanced jets in the world, is slower than ...

Poland scrambled fighter jets to defend its airspace overnight as Ukrainian authorities said five people had been killed in extensive Russian drone and missile attacks across the country. Russia's ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will shortly announce which defense company the Pentagon has chosen to design and build the U.S. Navy's next-generation stealth fighter, known as the F/A-XX, according ...

Modern-day warfare doctrine demands control of the skies, and fighter jets are key to achieving that domination. Honed by decades of trial and error during the Cold ...

Russia’s war on Ukraine changed the course of a generation of start-ups and investors that have applied a new business model to Europe’s military buildup. A veteran fighter pilot in a simulator tries ...

I caught an epic moment at RAF Mildenhall as an AVIANO F-16 with a special tail design launched into a vertical climb and immediately rolled inverted. The maneuver was fast, loud, and absolutely ...

Late in the war the Luftwaffe’s revolutionary Messerschmitt Me 262 met the Allies’ pinnacle propeller fighter, the P-51D Mustang, in the skies over Germany. Luftwaffe pilots recalled the encounters as ...

Autonomous fighter planes are popping up all over the place these days as more air forces opt for pilotless loyal wingmen. The latest example is Europe's version, the multi-role Helsing CA-1 Europa, ...

This whole thing is already pretty ridiculous, but some have become even wackier over the years as owners have transplanted other engines into them. We've seen one that had a 650 cc parallel-twin out ...

Below, Michelle “MACE” Curran shares five key insights from her new book, The Flipside: How to Invert Your Perspective and Turn Fear into Your Superpower. Michelle spent over a decade as a fighter ...

The U.S. Navy’s maintainers have had to strip submarines and fighter jets for spare parts to repair other planes and subs, a government watchdog found. In at least one case, mechanics repairing a Navy ...

The Foxbat could fly at extreme speeds—but in doing so, it would risk damage to the airframe and engines, which were far less sophisticated than their American counterparts. The National Museum of the ...