The Paradox of Speed It seems logical that modern fighter jets would be faster than those that flew half a century ago.

The appearance of the bombers in mass was the turning point in the aerial warfare of World War II. The era of sportsmanlike, ...

Morane-Saulnier M.S. 406 was the most numerous French fighter aircraft at the beginning of WW2. Curtiss Hawk was the first ...

The Yak-9 performed more anti-tank missions, in particular, the Yak-9T variant with a 37mm cannon, in this case the ...

Kept under a veil of civilian airlines, glider clubs, and civil aviation clubs, the Luftwaffe emerged as a military force while the rest of Europe slept, and the He 51 was the backbone fighter of the ...

The Defiant’s real-world combat performance can be summed up in a ten-word nutshell: great against enemy bombers, not so great against enemy fighters. In other words, it was more of an interceptor ...

Seen modelled by a BAE Systems test pilot, the Striker II will now be flown by the RAF and Luftwaffe Eurofighter pilots. (BAE Systems) The Luftwaffe is to join the UK Royal Air Force (RAF) in fielding ...

Germany has conducted its first firing of MBDA’s Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile from one of its Eurofighter combat aircraft. Announcing the development on 6 December, the German air ...

Germany is to equip a portion of its Project Quadriga jets with an emitter locator system (ELS) and anti-radiation missile as part of the Luftwaffe's wider ...