Today we're looking at the Bell X-2, the first aircraft to exceed Mach 3. Designed to explore these high speeds and the use ...

The grainy black-and-white footage rolls, a relic of Cold War secrecy: two Soviet-marked fighters streak across the sky, one ...

When the Korean War began in 1950, the United States entered a new era of air combat it barely understood. Pilots trained for ...

But the variable-sweep wing design seems to have gone out of fashion most recently. As the name suggests, “variable-sweep” wings are aircraft wings that can be adjusted to different degrees of ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. America's first swept-wing jet fighter, the F-86 Sabre joined the ranks of great fighter aircraft during combat ...

Summary: The Su-47 Berkut, developed in post-Soviet Russia during the 1990s, showcased forward-swept wings and was an attempt at a stealth fighter, though experts debate its stealth capabilities.

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 ...

Dangerous to Allied bombers as well as the ground crews that maintained it and the pilots that flew it, the tiny Me 163 had an amazing climb rate and top speed thanks to its unique rocket engine ...