The attack helicopter is costly and complex to operate, yet it is taking a mauling in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia's full-scale invasion attempt of Ukraine starting in 2022 has shown both ...

Moggy The specific Hawker Typhoon scheme chosen was a decision made by the Air Historical Branch but it was an identifiable aircraft that flew during D-Day and has a story, being flown by Sqn Ldr ...

Return of the High-Level Bomber Credit: Northrop Grumman Stephen Liddle looks into the surprisingly long story that led to the first flight of the most advanced heavy bomber the world has ever seen.

The key strand running behind the Tigershark story is the FX program. FX (Fighter eXport) was a result of a decision by the Carter Administration in 1977 that sales of US front-line equipment would be ...

Steve Parker doesn’t flew the HC-130 for the U.S. Coast Guard. Here he gives us the low-down on the demanding life of a flying coastguard. “You have to go out. You don’t have to come back.” That’s not ...

MY LAST big cross-country with the F-104 was supposed to take place on July 9, 1982. That Friday I wanted to fly with my significantly more experienced comrade Georg (Schorse) Lange from Eggebek to ...

Credit: mil.in.ua Russia’s savage aggression against Ukraine has revealed much about the state of Russia’s combat air capabilities. We asked Guy Plopsky to take a deeper look. Which Russian Aerospace ...

In the first of a series of articles presenting cases for the best fighter aircraft of World War II, we start with Jim Smith’ s case for the Messerchmitt Bf 109. Let us know your thoughts in the ...

Aerospace Engineer Joe Wilding examines why the Mustang was so good. “ I want to start with an embarrassing confession. With a lifelong obsession with aircraft and a few decades of experience ...

Fourship ingress to attack an IED factory The Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 is the workhorse of the Royal Air Force's air combat fleet, excelling in both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. Starting ...

There has been a recent upsurge in social media attention to the Shenyang FC-31, prompted by the release of a photograph of a new carrier-capable variant, with what appears to be folding wings, and a ...

Russia reveals what is described as a prototype of a new fighter aircraft at the MAKS 21 airshow. We caught up with Justin Bronk (Research Fellow at the RUSI think-tank and Editor of RUSI Defence ...