American bomber missions regularly last 20 hours or more, making the addition of a second pilot vital for crew endurance.

Ellsworth AFB is now America's primary B-21 stealth bomber hub. Discover the $4 billion push to field this next-gen force.

Assume the H-20 clears every engineering hurdle tomorrow. It would still depend on a refueling fleet of roughly 35 aircraft, none carrying the high-flow boom that heavy bombers require, against an ...

America's legendary B-52 is getting fiber-optic weapons pylons that could completely change how it carries future missiles ...

The US Air Force has finalized the flight crew structure for its incoming B-21 ...

When standard physics said it couldn't be done, these designers rewrote the rules. Step inside the absolute limits of ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Seven American stealth bombers flew roughly 37 hours to bomb Iran's nuclear sites over the weekend.

The US Air Force's second B-21 Raider nuclear bomber has taken to the skies for the first time. The second of a planned fleet of 100, the sixth-gen aircraft took off from Northrop Grumman's Palmdale, ...

The bomber is a menacing sight for any pilot or target on the receiving end of its payload. Aerial combat is only around a century old, but it quickly bisected itself into two distinct aircraft types.

A mammoth military plane on a routine test mission crashed shortly after takeoff Monday in Southern California, killing all eight crew members on board and leaving charred wreckage so mangled it was ...

The Boeing B-52 is on track to become the first jet-powered aircraft to reach 100 years of continuous service, a milestone it will hit in the 2050s, thanks in part to its strategic reinvention and ...

In a break in decades of doctrine that left its prized bombers exposed, Russia is building shelters for them at a highly-targeted air base.