The X-Bat looks like science fiction, but it’s designed for real combat. Combining vertical launch, stealth, and AI autonomy, it removes many of the limits that define today’s air forces. This ...

At Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, a test bed for a new kind of air force, Major Trent McMullen is a fighter pilot learning to fly alongside the XQ-58, a drone piloted by artificial intelligence.

Pilots aboard an F-16C Fighting Falcon and an F-15E Strike Eagle each controlled two XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned aircraft in an air combat training scenario. In a groundbreaking test which has been ...

Although designed and designated as a bomber, the B-21 Raider can more usefully be thought of as a stealthy, networked, long-range aircraft capable of employing a considerable payload of large weapons ...

Wings of Theve's top developers chat about cloud technology, drones and all the world-building players don't see.

When the Korean War began in 1950, the United States entered a new era of air combat it barely understood. Pilots trained for the piston-engine battles of World War II suddenly faced jet fighters that ...

Rear Adm. Kenneth W. “Pete” Pettigrew, a Top Gun instructor, served as a consultant on the 1986 film "Top Gun," a scene from which is shown here. (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command) Randall H.

The contract, jointly led by Airbus as Spain’s national coordinator and Turkish Aerospace as manufacturer of the HÜRJET Jet Trainer, aims to replace the current F-5 aircraft fleet and cover the entire ...

Randall H. Cunningham, the sole U.S. Navy ace pilot of the Vietnam War, called him "the greatest guy I trained under," and subsequently flew practically alongside him during Operation Linebacker. In ...