Military Aviation

Sometimes secrets are revealed not because of leaks, but because of… paint. One of the U.S. Air Force’s most secretive aircraft—the RC-135 Rivet Joint ...

In this new article, I invite you to take a different look at Soviet military equipment, which the press and popular literature traditionally refer to as ...

The Mi-26 heavy-lift helicopter has long transcended its role as a mere helicopter, becoming a technological phenomenon in aviation history. Since its maiden ...

For more than two decades, this combination has existed in Saab promotional materials: the compact JAS 39 Gripen carrying two massive Taurus KEPD 350 cruise ...

Sometimes an aircraft project is abandoned because nobody needs the aircraft anymore. With the Il-214, almost the opposite happened. The transport aircraft ...

As preparations were underway for the launch of the “Artemis II” crewed mission, all eyes were on the rocket, the spacecraft, and the crew. But another ...

We’ve previously written about the development of the new Ka-65 “Minoga” helicopter in Russia. However, information about it has been scarce lately, but that ...

Throughout aviation history, giant transport aircraft have almost always been created to solve extraordinarily large logistical problems. The Antonov An-225 ...

Imagine a modern American military base in the Middle East. Around it is a network of radars, air-defense systems, airborne early-warning aircraft, fighters, ...

The development of the Korean KF-21 fighter jet has progressed fairly quickly by modern aviation standards, but until recently it remained in the usual ...