Explore seven military aircraft that define modern airpower through speed, sensors, payload, and battlefield dominance.

The Crusader was active during the Vietnam War, ‘scoring’ 19 air-to-air victories for three losses, the best ratio of any US ...

Quesst is the result of a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and NASA to build a supersonic aircraft that can fly over ...

Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Here they reveal the secrets of flying the world’s ...

Military fighter jets are among the fastest aircraft in the history of aviation. But for some of these planes in the early 1990s, their incredible speed made them a target for enemy radar. One example ...

The U.S. Air Force has been making decisions about what future jet fighters will look like. The contest between Boeing and Lockheed to design and build the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) ...

Pilots sometimes need to operate at slow speeds—during tight turns and landings, for instance—and good low-speed handling is the hallmark of a great fighter jet. People tend to associate raw speed ...

Savior of many a cramped pair of legs, the jet stream is well known for lopping roughly an hour off long haul west-to-east flights. But it's working especially hard for travelers in economy class ...

Speed is usually sold as the ultimate advantage in air combat, the quality that lets a fighter jet sprint through danger and vanish before an enemy can react. Yet the faster an aircraft moves, the ...

RAM engine upgrades and Robertson STOL kit transform classic twin into modern cross-country powerhouse.