The Sukhoi Su-25 "Frogfoot" is Russia’s answer to the A-10 Warthog, built for close air support and deadly precision strikes. In the fight against ISIL in Syria, Russian Su-25 pilots executed brutal ...

Since 2020, China and Russia have massively expanded their air power since 2020, with China tripling fifth‑generation fighter ...

Japan fighter aircraft were scrambled 448 times in the last nine months – a 14 percent decrease from the same timeframe last ...

Air superiority doesn’t just enable victory on the modern battlefield, in an indirect sense it determines which aircraft can ...

First flying in 1949 the Il-28 Beagle was a twin-engined straight-winged jet bomber powered by the Klimov VK-1 jet engine, an ...

History is filled with military aircraft that looked like expensive miscalculations long before they ever saw combat.

Despite claims of Mach 2.54, pilots report that the fastest speeds achieved in practice are Mach 2.25–2.3 in brand-new ...

The US Air Force is more of a logistics organization than a fighting force allowing it to project power almost anywhere at ...

The USAF remains the world's largest, but its number of crewed aircraft is shrinking as the PLAAF grows in numbers. Its UAV ...

The Geran-5 features US parts such as digital signal processors and clock generators, along with a Chinese jet engine and ...