I flew on SilkWay Ilyushin IL-76 transporter from Baku to Erbil, Iraq. The flight was completely different from the Western conventional airplane. It took a strong team of 5 men to operate including 2 ...

Not every experimental jet fighter made by the U.S. military would go on to reach production, for any number of reasons.

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In the 1980s, an American engineer had a bold vision—to build an ekranoplan 10 times bigger than the Soviet Union’s Caspian ...

Stretching back to WWII, the history of Russian jet development is intertwined with that of the United States. Here are the ...

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According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

With a wingspan of 1,120 feet, the Lockheed CL-1201 would have been the largest aircraft ever designed. Oh, and it would have been nuclear-powered .

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After accepting its first two stealth fighters from Lockheed Martin in December, Poland has begun training its initial cohort ...