The race to build the next era of airpower is no longer just about speed, stealth, or altitude. It is about whether a human being needs to sit in the cockpit at all. As defense planners sketch out ...

Seventh generation fighters are being designed around a simple, unsettling premise: the human body is becoming the limiting factor in air combat. As engineers push toward hypersonic speeds, ...

Although the US Navy has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in active service, only around half are deployed at any given ...

The US Air Force dominates the world's international airbases, with the Navy coming second if it is considered an "air force.

France Braces For A Europe Without Washington. Inside the historic corridors of the École Militaire, a stone's throw from the ...

Operation Absolute Resolve achieved its objective of seizing Maduro through a mix of extensive planning, intelligence and timing. R. Evan Ellis, a military strategist and former Latin America policy ...

The United States and China are the two obvious contenders for sixth-generation fighter programs—and various European nations ...

Israel’s fighter jet fleet will receive an $8.6 billion upgrade as Boeing builds up to 25 new F-15IA aircraft, with options ...

While it might be tempting for the general public to refer to any military aircraft that flies fast as a fighter jet, there are a couple that don't exactly fit that designation. The legendary A-10 ...

New photos released to Newsweek offer a glimpse at a new aerial drone that is designed to fly alongside advanced fighter jets. The images, which have not previously been publicly available, are the ...

Japan plans to expand the number of bases hosting advanced F-35A stealth fighter jets amid neighboring countries' military activities and air power modernization efforts. Chitose Air Base on Hokkaido, ...

BERLIN, Dec 16 (Reuters) - A meeting between the French, German and Spanish defence ministers last week failed to yield a breakthrough rescuing the troubled French-German-Spanish FCAS warplane ...