The F-104’s safety record was, frankly, atrocious. Lightweight. Simple. Fast. The F-104 Starfighter was designed, in a time of increasing aircraft complexity and size, to be a straightforward ...

The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was one of the fastest jets of its time, but it came with a cost. Dubbed the "Flying Coffin", this aircraft had an alarmingly high crash rate. Was it a revolutionary ...

Jet fighters have been one of the primary methods of air-to-air combat for the militaries of the world for decades. The incredible Messerschmitt 262 was the very first jet fighter, fielded later ...

() – Boeing earned a contract to build the U.S. Air Force's top air dominance fighter, the F-47 and the service has plenty of ...

Supersonic flight means breaking the sound barrier, but there are some myths as to what pilots actually feel at Mach 1.

The GE CF6 the longest running aircraft engine and remains a popular choice for cargo aircraft and some military transport ...

Lockheed Martin has produced a one-off “mock-up” of the Russian anti-aircraft missile and gun system, Pantsir-S1.

Hurtling through the sky, with nothing below you, apart from 40,000 feet of thin air may feel like a dangerous place to be, but when it comes to ...

Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS William P. Lawrence (DDG-110), left, and USS Sterett (DDG-104), right, maneuvers with the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70 ...

Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. The world has taken notice of the hypersonic technology that China and Russia ...