The McDonnell Douglas Phantom II was one of the most successful and widely used fighter aircraft of the Cold War, and its ...

For decades, the United States has relied on aircraft not just to fight wars, but to project power across the globe faster ...

History has shown that wars are capable of evolving faster than aircraft design cycles. Platforms optimized for nuclear ...

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 ...

From Minot to Beale, explore the Cold War-era US Air Force bases still operating today and how they continue shaping modern American airpower.

The de Havilland Mosquito was a fast British multi-role combat aircraft that flew in 1940. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Merlin ...

But the variable-sweep wing design seems to have gone out of fashion most recently. As the name suggests, “variable-sweep” wings are aircraft wings that can be adjusted to different degrees of ...

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 ...

The U.S. military has long relied upon jet engines for its fighter and attack aircraft. As early as the 1940s, U.S. aircraft were experimenting with jet engines, threatening to make the ...