Observing nighttime flight operations aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) is like watching a meticulously choreographed ballet unfold under the cover of darkness.

The air-defense loadout, the name for which was made official in Navy documentation, consists of four AIM-9X and five AIM-120 air-to-air missiles.

NATO fighter jets conducting air patrol missions in the Baltic states had to scramble twice in late December to intercept and escort Russian aircraft, according to the Ukrainian news site European ...

The Aviationist recently visited Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, in Japan, to witness an ordinary day of operations at the ...

New Delhi: Fighter jets have come a long way since the culmination ... above 3500 kmh. If we go back to the Cold War when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, then the USA under President Dwight ...

Video of the top 20 conformations of conformer C0 with an estimated uncertainty of 2.7–3.8 Å; mean = 3.3 Å. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07559-x The system was trained on a ...

Within the next decade, a Chinese stealth carrier-based fighter will likely enter service, one that is designed from the land-based Shenyang J-35. The Chinese J-15 fighter jet was developed, as ...

Before getting into the weeds of what each generation entails, two points to be noted. First, the notion of aircraft generations came up only in the 1990s. It has thus been retrospectively applied to ...

After completing the task, the aircraft landed back on the carrier ... An F/A-18F Super Hornet, attached to the “Red Rippers” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 11, flies past the Nimitz-class ...

When it comes to aerial combat, speed counts. Whether it’s an air superiority fighter designed to dominate the aerial battlefield, an interceptor optimized for climb, or a long-range multirole ...

These aircraft also come with the firepower to back up this speed ... the F/A-18 Hornet is a versatile multirole aircraft. It serves as a fighter and attack aircraft, capable of operating from ...

Images of advanced aircraft cruising at low altitudes in China on Thursday have surprised analysts, who say they could mark the maiden flights of sixth-generation fighter jets, representing a ...