Explore seven military aircraft that define modern airpower through speed, sensors, payload, and battlefield dominance.

The battle for control of the Red Sea skies has shifted from sporadic missile volleys to direct confrontations between Houthi ...

PATUXENT RIVER, Md.— The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division at Patuxent River completed a key tactical demonstration showing F-35 Lightning II pilots directing multiple Collaborative Combat ...

A YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft test aircraft is staged in Poway, Calif., May 19, 2025. The Department of the Air Force has begun ground testing for the CCA program to validate performance and ...

The Crusader was active during the Vietnam War, ‘scoring’ 19 air-to-air victories for three losses, the best ratio of any US ...

The YFQ-42 becomes the first of the U.S. Air Force’s new Collaborative Combat Aircraft to enter flight testing. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced on Aug. 27, 2025, that its YFQ-42A ...

With the YFQ-44 now flying, both of the U.S. Air Force’s new Collaborative Combat Aircraft are in flight testing. The YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) developed by Anduril has conducted its ...

The Navy completed a demonstration of its manned-unmanned teaming capabilities to further the development of its ...

Military analyst on CCTV says frontier technologies reflect ‘expectations for future aerospace and space superiority’.

In these, aircraft losses in combat are more likely than not. Modern air forces fighting in such wars might have short lives. In the last major air war of 1939-1945, many tens of thousands of aircraft ...

History is filled with military aircraft that looked like expensive miscalculations long before they ever saw combat.

Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) combat aircraft have conducted strikes against military targets in Cambodia, as border tensions between the two neighbours flare up. Thailand appears to have conducted ...