How Chinese Missiles and Tech Bros Nearly Killed America’s Secret New Stealth Fighter
The Boeing F-47 will soon be the world’s most advanced fighter jet on the planet—but it almost never happened.
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Russia’s Su-57 is Close to Getting Loyal Wingmen
Russian Aerospace Forces pilots flying the Sukhoi Su-57 may have drones as “loyal wingmen,” assisting in the operations in ...
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Joint Chiefs chairman nominee vows to serve as nonpartisan leader, denies he wore MAGA hat
Dan Caine, a retired Air Force lieutenant general, committed Tuesday to serving as a nonpartisan leader who would give ...
National Security Journal on MSN1d
How Do I Fly This? U.S. Army Pilot Training Dropped 300 Hours in 10 Years
In the wake of a tragic January 29 air-to-air collision between a United States Army Sikorsky BlackHawk helicopter and ...
A Greenville WWII captain was shot down, taken prisoner by Nazis. A memorial is planned in Germany.
Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...
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One Man’s Tale of Courage Flying Fighters in the Dark
Northrop’s P-61 Black Widow was late to the war. The fighter-bomber didn’t fly its first combat mission until June 1944, when ...
Erdogan accuses the opposition of wrecking Turkey’s economy during protests over mayor’s jailing
Turkey’s president has accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in ...
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The Pentagon’s DEI purge: Officials describe a scramble to remove and then restore online content
The first female Army Reserve graduate of Ranger School, Maj. Lisa Jaster, or the first female fighter pilot, Air Force Maj.
Florida Becomes Latest State To Make Tuskegee Airman Day An Official State Holiday
As Florida proclaims Tuskegee Airman Day a state holiday, is it time for the U.S. to create a new federal holiday to ...
Air Force purges photos, websites on pioneering female pilots
Some websites on retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force's first female fighter pilot, and the World War II-era WASPs have been pulled offline.
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The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
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Last surviving RAF fighter ace from the Battle of Britain dies at 105
March 18 (UPI) --The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old. Announcing the death of John ...