where U.S. warplanes such as the F-4 Phantom II were challenged by agile Soviet-built MiGs and a coterie of sophisticated Soviet-built anti-aircraft defenses. The Air Force knew it needed a new ...

The first purely jet-powered aircraft flown off of American aircraft carriers, and the first jet aircraft flown by the United ...

Entertaining crowds since 1953, the United States Air Force Thunderbirds are one of the world’s best known aerial demonstrations teams, dazzling ...

To compensate for the considerable advantages the F-4 Phantoms had over MiG-21s, the North Vietnamese developed innovative ...

Stretching back to WWII, the history of Russian jet development is intertwined with that of the United States. Here are the ...

Tom Cruise doesn't have anything to do with it, but the Navy flight school featured in the "Top Gun" movies really exists.

Iran looks to be getting Su-35 fighter jets from Russia, but they won't fill the gaps in Iran's degraded air defenses against ...

With reports that Iran may soon receive its first new fighter jets since the 1979 Revolution (apart from when much of the ...

The aircraft was an F-4 Phantom jet, unconfirmed reports have said.

He was big, imposing and was ours - Pensacola's and the country's. Now, 105 years after birth, he is honored with hometown ...