The F-15C Eagle was built around one goal: air superiority. Its formula was straightforward. Two powerful engines, a large wing, a strong radar and enough weapons to engage targets at different ranges ...

The AIM-7 Sparrow didn’t become famous because it worked perfectly. It became famous because the missile kept getting better. That distinction matters. The Sparrow began as an ambitious attempt to ...

A missile does not have to be the biggest weapon in the launcher to be the most interesting. The PAC-3 missile takes a very different approach to air and missile defense. Instead of relying mainly on ...

Anduril’s FQ-44 Fury is one of two Increment 1 CCA designs selected for production. The other is General Atomics’ FQ-42 Vengeance. In June 2026, the Air Force awarded both companies engineering, ...

A bomb can be built to hit hard. The BLU-109 Bomb was built to get inside. That difference explains why this weapon has lasted for decades. The BLU-109 bomb is a 2,000-pound-class hard-target ...

A propeller-driven aircraft can train pilots for modern fighter jets. That sounds strange until you see what the Pilatus PC-21 is actually built to do. The PC-21 isn’t a faster version of a basic ...

A trainer jet is not supposed to become one of Asia’s most interesting military aircraft families. The KAI T-50 Golden Eagle did exactly that. Developed by Korea Aerospace Industries with Lockheed ...

The F/A-18 Hornet should have been yesterday’s fighter by now. Its first flight came in 1978. The U.S. Navy began receiving production Hornets in 1983. By fighter standards, that makes the original ...

The JAS 39 Gripen was built around a simple Swedish idea: one fighter should do several jobs, take off from places a large air base cannot, and get back into the air quickly. That sounds ordinary ...

A missile doesn’t need to be the fastest weapon in the sky to be dangerous. The Norwegian Naval Strike Missile (NSM) proves the point. It flies at high subsonic speed, carries a roughly 125 kg warhead ...

Defense Feeds – The Leopard 2A8 Tank with Advanced Armor has been officially unveiled by Germany, marking its first fully built main battle tank production since 1992. The rollout at KNDS ...