Crunching the numbers of two defense aerospace juggernauts.

The history of military aviation is, in a few ways, a story of pushing speed to its limits.

On March 16, 1916, the U.S. Army's 1st Aero Squadron flew its first military mission over foreign territory during the ...

Fighter planes get a lot of press. Fast, sleek, and impossibly advanced, the image of the knights of the sky dueling to the death in their cockpits is a highly romanticized facet of aerial warfare.

Military aviation history is fundamentally shaped by human courage, sacrifice, and technological innovation, best understood through the personal accounts of pilots. The article recommends a selection ...

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We live in an age of military jet engines and have since the tail end of World War II. For the most part, the majority of commercial and military aircraft are powered by jet engines, but some planes ...

ST. HELENA — To Mike Nieman, the smell of his large Pratt & Whitney “Wasp Major” radial aircraft engine running is “the smell of victory.” “That smell is of a working engine that made this country ...

Stealth aircraft like F-117 and B-2 shifted strike doctrine from massed attacks to penetration-first campaigns. Predator and Reaper drones normalized remote warfare through persistent surveillance and ...