You know, it’s funny how some of the most iconic designs in aviation history came from planes that, well, didn’t quite hit the mark when it mattered. These military aircraft, despite their combat ...

In the years following the Korean War, the US military sought an aircraft that could combine the vertical lift of a helicopter with the speed of a fixed-wing airplane. Bell answered with the XV-3 ...

Many military aircraft remain operational decades past planned retirement due to replacement delays and unmatched capabilities. The A-10 and B-52 survived multiple retirement attempts because no newer ...

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 ...

Surface-to-air missiles invalidated speed and altitude as reliable survivability strategies faster than planners anticipated. Interceptor missions vanished as strategic threats shifted from bombers to ...