Tom Cruise doesn't have anything to do with it, but the Navy flight school featured in the "Top Gun" movies really exists.

The F-5A was a testament to what happens when a defense contractor actually tries to restrain its impulses and focus on making an affordable craft.

To compensate for the considerable advantages the F-4 Phantoms had over MiG-21s, the North Vietnamese developed innovative hit-and-run tactics.

To bolster its beleaguered Army of the Republic of Vietnam ally, the U.S. military sent airpower assets in force. As I’ve ...

Entertaining crowds since 1953, the United States Air Force Thunderbirds are one of the world’s best known aerial demonstrations teams, dazzling ...

Stretching back to WWII, the history of Russian jet development is intertwined with that of the United States. Here are the ...

A Navy spec carrier-capable multi-role jet that carried more bombs than quad-engine bombers from World War II, the Skyhawk pulled some real heavy lifting during the Vietnam War. A versatile and ...

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

If the U.S. got into a multidomain shooting war like Vietnam, fighter jets would carry a huge load ... The frontline fighter jet in the 1960s was the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II. Its two G.E. J79 ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal officials have identified the remains of a U.S. Air Force pilot from Wisconsin who went missing during the Vietnam War nearly 60 years ago. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...

Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing disappeared during a nighttime armed reconnaissance mission over the then-Democratic Republic of Vietnam, officials said ...