History is filled with military aircraft that looked like expensive miscalculations long before they ever saw combat.

On paper, the age of stealth and drones should have pushed Cold War jets and early airliners into museums. In practice, some ...

The X-Bat looks like science fiction, but it’s designed for real combat. Combining vertical launch, stealth, and AI autonomy, it removes many of the limits that define today’s air forces. This ...

At Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, a test bed for a new kind of air force, Major Trent McMullen is a fighter pilot learning to fly alongside the XQ-58, a drone piloted by artificial intelligence.

History has shown that wars are capable of evolving faster than aircraft design cycles. Platforms optimized for nuclear ...

When the Korean War began in 1950, the United States entered a new era of air combat it barely understood. Pilots trained for the piston-engine battles of World War II suddenly faced jet fighters that ...

Pilots aboard an F-16C Fighting Falcon and an F-15E Strike Eagle each controlled two XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned aircraft in an air combat training scenario. In a groundbreaking test which has been ...