AI may win dogfights in simulations, but in the fog of war, America still needs pilots. T he US Air Force has been clear ...

China is building a layered kill web—PL-15 air-to-air missiles, HQ-9/22 surface-to-air systems, long-wave radars, KJ-500 AEW, and space-based ISR—to threaten America’s new B-21 Raider. -Simulations ...

In a major evaluation of what the Pentagon has positioned as the future of air combat, Lockheed Martin’s secretive Skunk Works unit has simulated an air-to-air fighter engagement that saw a crewed jet ...

Although designed and designated as a bomber, the B-21 Raider can more usefully be thought of as a stealthy, networked, long-range aircraft capable of employing a considerable payload of large weapons ...

A U.S. Air Force XQ-58A Valkyrie flies over Eglin Air Force Base’s Gulf Test and Training Range. The recent test flight and data collected will inform future air operations and contribute to advanced ...

AURORA, Colo. — The Air Force’s first two prototype collaborative combat aircraft have received their mission design series designations and will fly this summer, Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Allvin said ...

The age of the piloted fighter aircraft may not be over but the US Air Force has shown that it may be time to start collecting the coats, as it has designated two prototype combat drones as official ...

A pioneering method to simulate how nanoparticles move through the air could boost efforts to combat air pollution, a study suggests. (Nanowerk News) Tiny particles found in exhaust fumes, wildfire ...

A YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft test aircraft is staged in Poway, Calif., May 19, 2025. The Department of the Air Force has begun ground testing for the CCA program to validate performance and ...

Towards the end of World War II, nations began developing more robust means of taking down enemy aircraft. Throughout most of the war, the only means of taking out an enemy plane was by shooting it ...

The U.S. Air Force will increase combat capability in South Korea, temporarily creating a new “super squadron” of F-16 Fighting Falcon military jets at a military base in that country. File Photo ...