Share this story The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress first flew on April 15, 1952. The youngest airframe in the fleet was delivered in October 1962. Every B-52 flying today is older than every crew member flying it — and many are older than the crew members’ parents....
Share this story On February 20, 1959 — a day Canadians still call “Black Friday” — Prime Minister John Diefenbaker cancelled the most advanced interceptor on the planet, fired 14,500 people, and ordered every prototype destroyed. Then, for good measure,...
Share this story Half a century ago, the Shah of Iran bought 80 American F-14A Tomcats and 633 AIM-54 Phoenix long-range missiles for $2 billion. It was the most advanced fighter deal the United States had ever made with a foreign country.Then came the revolution, the...
Share this story On May 31, 2026, CENTCOM issued a terse statement: Iran had shot down a “U.S. MQ-1 drone” over international waters. The U.S. responded with strikes on Iranian radar and drone command sites on Goruk and Qeshm Island.The internet...
Share this story The United States Air Force has been trying to kill the U-2 Dragon Lady for the better part of three decades. The U-2 keeps winning. On June 10, 2026, the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee released a draft FY2027 spending bill that bars the...
Share this story Before AWACS, air warfare was a knife fight in a dark room. Pilots relied on their own radar, ground controllers with limited visibility, and radio calls that were often confused, late, or wrong. After AWACS, one side had the lights on and the other...
Share this story North Korea operates one of the largest air forces in the world on paper. The Korean People’s Army Air Force (KPAAF) fields an estimated 550–570 combat aircraft, over 300 transport and utility helicopters, and approximately 110,000 personnel. By...
Share this story The Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech is widely considered the loudest aircraft ever built. Its supersonic propeller generated continuous sonic booms that could be heard 25 miles away, made ground crews physically ill, and reportedly knocked a man...
Share this story At 2:38 a.m. on January 17, 1991, eight AH-64 Apache helicopters crossed into Iraqi airspace at treetop height. Their mission: destroy two early-warning radar stations that would blind Iraq to what was coming next. Within minutes, the stations were...
Share this story A pilot pulls the handle. Two and a half seconds later, they are floating under a parachute. In between, they have been subjected to forces that would kill an unrestrained human being — and the engineering that makes it survivable is among the most...
Share this story In the late 1950s, both superpowers reached the same conclusion: the future of strategic bombing was speed. Build a bomber that flies at Mach 3 and nothing can catch it. No interceptor, no missile, no air defence system could touch an aircraft...
Share this story At ILA Berlin, Airbus pulled the covers off a long, dark shape with knife-thin wings and no cockpit — and gave Europe its clearest look yet at the robot fighter it wants to send to war alongside its pilots. The aircraft is the U-760 Ravenstorm, an...
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