The top speed of the fastest operational fighter was less than 360 mph when the war started. By 1945, this had increased by an astonishing 300mph. Knowing that ‘speed was life’, some designers packed ...

Anduril's jet-powered drone flew for the first time on Friday, the company and the U.S. Air Force said, marking a significant step for the defense tech company's drone ambitions.

US air force secretary Troy Meink heralded the start of competitive flight-testing as a key breakthrough in the effort to field a new class of uncrewed tactical jets known as Collaborative Combat ...

The Air Force warns that having a smaller fleet may increase the risk it won't be able to carry out all its missions.

According to the Heritage Foundation's Index of U.S. Military Strength in 2024, at the close of FY 2023, the Air Force’s ...

An unclassified U.S. Air Force report, mandated by the 2025 NDAA, included figures of the required combat fleet, calling for an increase of nearly 300 ...

If the Air Force is going to have a fighter force with "low" operational risk by 2035, as it detailed in a recent report, the government is going to need to figure out a way to pick up the tab for ...

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

U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles from the 492d Fighter Squadron, RAF Lakenheath, conduct flight-line operations and ...

The US Air Force requires a 22% expansion of its fighter fleet to 1,558 aircraft by 2035, up from 1,271 currently, according ...

The Eastern Flank Defense Line envisions that in a future fight, NATO will blunt any Russian offensive with an unmanned zone ...

Poland scrambled fighter jets and an early warning aircraft, and put its ground air defenses and radar systems on "the ...