Fighter aircraft have always been the cutting edge of air combat. Whether ripping through the skies of Europe in World […] ...

A Massachusetts-based company is set to equip its powerful radar on the U.S. Air Force’s autonomous fighter jets. Raytheon ...

Thrust vectoring—essentially redirecting the plane’s exhaust flow—allows modern fighters to quickly change direction, giving them an edge in close combat.

The US Air Force will install Raytheon's PhantomStrike active electronically scanned array radar on its X-62 VISTA test ...

The Future Combat Aircraft System (FCAS), a landmark €100 billion sixth-generation warplane project between France, Germany, ...

The future F-35A jet squadron on Hokkaido will be Japan's fifth unit operating the stealth aircraft, the defense ministry ...

That's right, you probably guessed it, the most expensive fighter jet in the world is still Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor. As ...

For a long time, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union have been the leaders in technologically advanced fighter jets. Recently, however, China has been catching up in terms of ...

Helicopters are large, complex aircraft that have been used in military operations for almost as long as they've been around. As agile vehicles, helicopters completely changed how troops are inserted ...

A meeting between the French, German and Spanish defence ministers last week failed to yield a breakthrough rescuing the ...

China and Japan ties, already frayed by comments made by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Taiwan, came under further strain at the weekend after a Chinese fighter aircraft trained fire-control radar ...

TRONA, Calif. (AP) — A fighter jet with the Air Force’s elite Thunderbirds demonstration squadron crashed in the Southern California desert Wednesday, but the pilot managed to eject safely, the ...