Mullets, stealth and which other Second World War Fighters Achieved This Holy Grail? The P-51 Mustang has been described as the most decisive combat aircraft in history. Its ability to escort ...

Mullets, stealth and which other Second World War Fighters Achieved This Holy Grail? The P-51 Mustang has been described as the most decisive combat aircraft in history. Its ability to escort bombers ...

The primary sensor of the modern fighter remains the radar. Up until the 1980s operating a radar effectively required a great degree of skill; today’s digital radars are simple to use, long-ranged and ...

Europe’s two middle-weight fighter aircraft, the Typhoon and Rafale, have fought tooth and nail for multi-billion Euro sales across the world. Geographically surrounded on four sides by the ...

Soviet interceptor pilots faced the daunting task of defending the world’s largest nation against the combined forces of the world’s most technologically advanced nations. The awesome responsibility ...

The first working submarine appears to have been invented as long ago as 1620 by Cornelius Van Drebbel whose demonstration of his creation on the Thames was recorded by Constantijn Huygens (below).

“Care-free manoeuvring for sure. I came from flying the JA 37 Viggen, where you basically had to ‘do a Marty Feldman’, keeping one eye on the Angle-of-Attack meter, one on the G-meter and your last ...

Abraham Lincoln noted that America will never be destroyed from the outside. Likewise the most serious threats to the US aircraft industry have always come from within, as demonstrated by the ...

The world is burning. Infernos rage across the globe, with many nations in the grip of fires of biblical proportions. Facing these firestorms is a motley force of aircraft, crewed by heroic and ...

Unlikely as it is, the main competitor of the F-35 is the Saab Gripen-E. These two fighter types, are as different as they could get, one akin to a bulky people carrier, the other a stripped-down ...

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 ...