The Soviet Union continued to invest heavily in the development of capable next-generation fighter and bomber aircraft ...

The US Military has specific guidelines for naming its planes, though there is some creative license applied when necessary.

I served in the United States Air Force Security Service for five years, from 1955. I enlisted right after high school ...

A U.S. Air Force press release has confirmed the next Bomber Task Force deployment to Europe will begin in the coming days, ...

These are the reconnaissance and weather reconnaissance aircraft the USAF possesses, according to the listings on its website ...

The Soviet MiG-25 "Foxbat" was a high-speed interceptor designed to counter U.S. spy planes like the U-2 and SR-71. With ...

The SR-72, developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, is a proposed hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft aimed to fill critical intelligence gaps in the U.S. Air Force. Expected to fly in the mid-2020s ...

There aren’t many current and former U-2 spy plane pilots in the world, but I recently had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with one of them. Stan Rauch, who turns 80 this month, grew up at Lake ...

Primarily an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance installation of the Air Force, Beale continues to fly U-2 Dragon Lady and T-38 Talon aircraft from its base. But with the U-2 set for ...

In a September 1965 test, a YF-12 successfully launched a quarter-kiloton atomic missile, from an altitude of 75,000 feet at Mach 3.26.

UFOs are now known as UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) to make their serious reporting and study more palatable to the ...