Other programs, such as the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program, complement, not substitute, manned fighter aircraft.

while others embraced exotic new propulsion systems like the jet and the rocket. Air combat grew faster, higher and more ...

An ambitious Air Force plan to acquire hundreds more advanced fighter jets for homeland defense over the next decade would ...

A new report to Congress pitching the Air Force’s 10-year fighter jet plan is missing key details and explanations, raising ...

Their goal is to minimize the gap between when the A-10s leave Selfridge and a replacement flying mission, F-15EX fighters, ...

The F-15 Eagle has anchored U.S. and allied air superiority for nearly five decades. Designed, built and introduced by ...

The US Air Force is retiring jets faster than it can produce new ones, raising alarms about its aerial capabilities in an ...

Opinion: The Air Force has passed the point where more cannot be done with less. The Trump administration and Congress need ...

Why It Refuses to Retire. T he A-10 Thunderbolt II, more famously known as the Warthog, is one of the most iconic aircraft in U.S. Air Force history. Designed during ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - After months of delay, the Pentagon will select as soon as this week the defense company to design and build the Navy's next stealth fighter, a U.S. official and two ...

Chinese state media released a report promoting the Chengdu J-10 in what could be part of broader efforts to market the multirole fighter jet to foreign buyers. China has leveraged its rapidly ...

Every day, police officers respond to reports of all sorts of events and nonevents, most of which never make the news. Here is a sampling of lesser-known — but no less noteworthy — incidents from ...