A flat grey triangle has started showing up in discussions of China’s next military aviation ideas, looking less like an aircraft and more like a moving base. The concept is called Luanniao, and it is presented as a near-space aircraft carrier meant to stay high above weather,

A U.S. military refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, in an incident U.S. Central Command said involved another aircraft but was not the result of hostile or friendly fire. In a statement,

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In military aviation, raw speed is no longer a benchmark for domination over the skies. Power has evolved into a multidimensional concept, blending engine performance, payload capacity ...

BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military has commissioned new combat aircraft to boost its air capacities, state media reported Friday, as the army steps up efforts to regain territory from resistance forces in the country’s civil war.

Military aircraft are typically judged by specifications and engineering elegance. But sometimes combat history repeatedly shows that those measures can be misleading. Some aircraft entered service with obvious design flaws like limited range, handling ...

The B-52H has flown for over six decades because no aircraft matches its payload, range, and flexibility. Most Cold War-era platforms survived by adapting to new missions rather than becoming obsolete. Modernization through avionics, sensors, and weapons ...

A South Korean military transport aircraft is bringing home 204 nationals from Saudi Arabia, officials said Sunday, in the first airlift evacuation using a military plane since the conflict began in the Middle East late last month.

Throughout much of military aviation history, aircraft fit within the confines of what is technologically possible for the time. Occasionally, however, you’ll see military aircraft that burst out of the limits set by technology,