Piston-engined fighters ruled the roost for thirty years. A brutal survival of the fittest ensured a rapid evolution of these characterful machines; the final fighters were over six times faster and ...

As terrible recent conflicts have shown, the fighter aircraft is far from dead and can prove vital for a nation's survival. The most modern fighters can shoot down an enemy aircraft at a range of 100 ...

The skies of the 20th century were awash with the roars of fighter aircraft, and few, if any, nation produced as many impressive machines as the United States. From the 1940s onwards, the US created ...

Modern fighter jets are very loud. They can blast between 140 and 153 decibels of noise on takeoff when they use their afterburners, which is enough to burst a person's eardrums if they're at close ...

No accolade could better describe how exemplary the F-22 Raptor is as a fighter jet than that its production run was ...

Targeting pods can combine visible and infrared sensors, stabilization, tracking and lasers to help fighter aircraft find and ...

For now, the A-10's retirement is less a verdict on which aircraft is better than a test of whether the Air Force can replace ...

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