First F-35B Lightning landing on HMS Prince of Wales

An F-35B jet has safely landed onboard the Royal Navy’s latest aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales. Taking place off the south coast of England, the milestone marks a significant step towards the…

Stricken £3.2BILLION Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales is reduced to acting as a scrap yard to keep sister ship Queen Elizabeth afloat

A STRICKEN Navy aircraft carrier is being stripped for parts to keep its sister ship afloat. Desperate Navy chiefs ordered mission critical parts to be removed from HMS Prince of Wales after they…

US Navy receives first upgraded E-6B Mercury aircraft

Northrop Grumman Corporation delivered the first modified E-6B Mercury aircraft to the US Navy on June 6. The E-6B, which serves as an airborne command post and communications relay for US nuclear forces,…

USAF trials performance enhancing system for laser weapons

The United States Air Force has conducted trials of a beam director designed to operate high-speed airborne directed energy lasers, providing a 360-degree field of view. The HARDROC team, short for Hybrid Aero-Effect…

Royal Navy aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth could set out on its first mission with more American than British planes on board

The Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier will set out on its first operational mission with more US than British warplanes on board, under plans being examined by defence chiefs. HMS Queen Elizabeth could…

Behold The First F-16 Viper Built In South Carolina

The first Viper to roll off the Greenville line is also the first in the advanced Block 70 configuration, and set to take flight next year. Lockheed Martin has now given us our…

Navy Aggressor F-5 Crashes Off Key West

The pilot ejected safely from the F-5N Tiger II operated by Fighter Squadron Composite 111 at Naval Air Station Key West. The pilot of a U.S. Navy F-5N Tiger II adversary jet has…

US Air Force’s ‘AI brain’ takes flight! Skyborg autonomous drone conducts first test in the sky without a human at the controls

The US Air Force conducted a flight test that paves the way for AI-piloted fighter jets to man the skies. The military group flew its Skyborg Autonomy Core System (ACS) for two hours…

The world’s biggest airplane soars again: Enormous H-shaped Stratolaunch craft with a 385ft wingspan takes to the skies over California carrying a hypersonic prototype

The gigantic Stratolaunch aircraft has successfully flown a prototype of its Talon hypersonic vehicle for the very first time. Described as the largest plane in the world due to its 383-foot wingspan, Stratolaunch’s…

Boom Supersonic reveals new design for its 1,300mph ‘sculpted for speed’ passenger plane that’s ‘kind of like if Concorde and a 747 had a baby’

Boom Supersonic has unveiled a new design for its 1,300mph airliner, which when it launches in 2029, will carry passengers between London and New York in just three and a half hours. The…

Could we be crossing the Atlantic in a jaw-dropping 80 minutes? Nuclear-powered plane would carry 170 passengers at more than THREE times the speed of sound, designer claims

Flying from London to New York in 80 minutes could become a reality in the future with jaw-dropping ideas for a new supersonic nuclear-powered plane. The Hyper Sting concept has been dreamt up…

The U.S. Military Built 4 Stealth Aircraft You Never Heard Of

You must admit it: the U.S. military is stacked with stealth fighters and bombers. In fact, the U.S. military wants 2,500 F-35 stealth fighters alone. But that doesn’t mean all stealth fighter and…

The short life of a semi-secret jet set the stage for development of the stealthy F-22 and F-35

The F-22 and the F-35 are among the most sophisticated fighter jets in the world. But before there was the F-22 or the F-35, there was the YF-118G, known as the “Bird of…

Trurest lets you faceplant your way to sleep on economy flights

There’s precious little human dignity in economy airline travel to begin with; why not go all the way? The HypNap TruRest offers you the opportunity to attempt sleep with your face mashed into…

10 Crazy Facts We Just Learned About The SR-71 Blackbird

When the military U-2 spy aircraft became vulnerable to Soviet attack in 1960, specifically from their surface-to-air missiles, President Eisenhower told Lockheed to build the impossible. The goal was simple yet nearly insurmountable,…

Secret Robot System To Help The F-22 Stay Stealthy And Fighters Healthy

More than 25 years after the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor took its maiden flight, it remains among the most capable air superiority fighter in the world. The Raptor’s combination of stealth, aerodynamic performance,…