During a recent test, the B-21 was photographed in refueling position behind a KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling aircraft—but it appears that no fuel was actually transferred.

Rolls-Royce announced in February that it completed altitude and operability testing for its F130 engine as part of the US Air Force's (USAF's) B-52J programme.

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Eremenko explains how his startup P-1 AI aims to build AI engineers and reflects on why hydrogen aviation stalled. Few engineers have moved as fluidly between defense research, Silicon Valley ...

Fifteen Marines and one sailor were killed when the KC-130T with the call sign “Yanky 72” crashed on July 10, 2017, in Mississippi.

In a hotel room in Santa Clara, Calif., five members of the AI company Anthropic huddled around a laptop, working urgently. It was February 2025, and they had been at a conference nearby when they ...

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is speaking to widening concerns the U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran could spiral into a ...

Extra funding passed in the 2025 “Big Beautiful Bill” could allow Northrop Grumman to increase its annual production of the ...

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President Donald Trump’s preferred paint colors will be applied to the new planes which will serve as Air Force One, an Air Force official tells CNN. The new heavily modified Boeing 747s, which the ...