The winner-take-all nature of aerial combat means the slightest edge can be the difference between victory and death. Power, maneuverability, agility, armor, and armament were all key components of a ...

After four decades of service, the last Soviet-era Polish Su-22 Fitter swing-wing strike aircraft have finally been withdrawn ...

Last year, the Air Force pulled B-1B 86-0115 “Rage” out of the Arizona boneyard, swapping it in for 86-0126 “Hungry Devil,” whose deep structural repairs proved costlier and slower than reviving a ...

More than a century of aviation has given us humans certain preconceptions when it comes to the machines that fly in our sky. Just take the shape of an aircraft into consideration. The simple mention ...

When Boeing Co. beat out Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for the prize of building the U.S. supersonic jet transport, it was on the basis of a venturesome swing-wing concept that many aeronautical designers ...

December 18, 2020: At the end of 2020 the Russian Air Force received the last of 124 Su-34 light bombers. Deliveries began in 2010 but the Su-34 did not officially enter service until 2014. Four years ...

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Airbus has determined that blended-wing-body designs are more competitive for larger aircraft while traditional tube-and-wing configurations remain optimal for narrowbody jets, CEO Guillaume Faury ...