Flying tailless birds, even with the assist of vector thrust engines, is a difficult undertaking. What’s more, going into combat with such a plane would have tested even the best fighter pilots.

A fighter jet with a B61-12 nuclear bomb trainer, a latest variant in the B61 family, was spotted over California.

In the early 1990s, Grumman proposed the "Super Tomcat for the 21st Century" (ST21) to modernize the F-14 Tomcat. This ...

One of the main ideas behind the X-44 was thrust vector control which would grant it the kind of maneuverability that would ...

Two Russian Tu-142 military aircraft were scrambled near Alaska, according to North American Aerospace Defense Command.

“When the Air Force ‘scrambles’ a fighter plane to intercept, they usually reach the plane in question in minutes.” FACT: In the decade before 9/11, NORAD intercepted only one civilian ...

Multiple Russian military aircraft were spotted last year with tires placed on top of them, but the reason behind this tactic ...

The United States scrambled fighter jets after Russian military aircraft were detected near Alaska. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said Wednesday that it detected ...

China has tested a new type of ship-borne fighter jet on its aircraft carrier, state media reported on Friday. The unidentified new fighter carried out take-off tests on the Liaoning, China’s ...

“The idea was to move the planes around faster than the Soviets could do surveillance of them,” said Col. Carl Bergqvist, a fighter pilot and the Swedish Air Force’s current chief of plan ...

Excitement hung in the air at a former Lincolnshire airfield as visitors saw a Cold War fighter jet go back on display for the first time in almost two decades. The Lightning Association ...

SUWON, South Korea — South Korea, an industrial and tech powerhouse, was once so poor that its citizens donated money so the government could buy five American fighter jets in case of a North ...