Ejector seats are designed to be as safe as possible—but there are obvious inherent dangers in a rocket-powered ejection from a fast-moving aircraft. Ejecting from a fighter jet is a wrenchingly ...

Early bombers relied on gravity to release their weapons, but modern fighter jets travel too fast for that approach to work ...

As time has gone on, innovations in fighter jet technology have made “bubble cockpits” steadily more useful to pilots—and ...

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The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...

Argentina is reportedly in talks to help provide Ukraine with Super Étendard fighter jets it has in storage due to Falkland War-era weapons embargoes.