In the 1980s, the U.S. considered converting four Iowa-class battleships into "battlecarriers," blending battleship firepower ...

Aircraft useful against insurgents and low-intensity conflicts are not necessarily the same as those useful against a peer-on ...

The United States Marine Corps will retire the last of its McDonnell Douglas AV-8B+ Harrier II fighters in just under two ...

Jim Schofield has flown more than 100 aircraft types and is the first pilot to fly front-line fighters for 100 years: 1917 ...

The U.S. Marine Corps completed its investigation into the 2023 F-35B crash in Williamsburg County last year, attributing the ...

Matt in one of his favourite aircraft. When you’ve flown 52 different aircraft types (and counting), you often get asked what ...

Out of all NATO Allied Forces, the United Kingdom ranks as one of the strongest. The backbone of the UK’s Armed Forces is the ...

As of now, these include convertiplanes, tilt-rotors, tilt-wings, rotor-wings, tail-sitters, and VSTOL aircraft like the Harrier and the F-35B Lighting II that use vector thrust, lift jets ...

Unlike the Harrier, which had vents pointed downward ... The Chance Vought Division of the United Aircraft Corporation started designing this disc-shaped blended wing and body prop plane in ...

The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force (RAF) is the cornerstone of Britain’s defense capabilities. Its fleet features an ...

Pilot error led to the high-profile crash in 2023 of a F-35B stealth fighter jet near Charleston, S.C., in which the aircraft ...