The Vietnam War was a vast calamity that cost millions of lives. In the chaos of the air war, MiGs and Phantom fighters duelled for supremacy, while B-52 bombers and other types smashed vast areas to ...

NATO's E-3 surveillance aircraft have been tracking the Ukraine war since the beginning. Crew members told Business Insider that they've noticed a shift in the air element of the war. As the front ...

The United States is expanding "air corridors" that will deliver combat power to China's doorstep in a future conflict.

Next time you’re eating a sandwich on your holiday flight, pause to think about something. The aircraft type you are flying ...

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

American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller, more agile MiGs and losing more often than anyone expected. The decline ...

Key takeaway: What is a Sopwith Camel? The Sopwith Camel was a famous fighter aircraft during World War I. It was a single-seat, single-engine biplane. On October 10, 1965, Snoopy, clad in aviator ...

Fighters may have the glamour and bombers the awe, but logistics win wars. Behind the great aerial logistical effort of the Second World War was a large force of transport aircraft charged with a ...

World War I was the laboratory that transformed airplanes from vehicles of limited capability into reliable weapons of war. The “World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation” exhibition highlights both ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. Last month, the United States Air Force carried out a far from ...

When author Becky Aikman decided in 2019 to write a book about the 25 American female pilots who flew planes for the Royal Air Force during World War II, she discovered that all but one of the women ...

This video is no longer available. When you go into the large museum hangar at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, you will be blown away by how many planes ...