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Celebrating Top Gun: Maverick's six Oscar nominations, Lockheed once again alluded to the existence of a jet faster than the SR-71 Blackbird.

The AUKUS deal will see Australia buy up to five U.S. nuclear submarines before acquiring boats of a new class based on a British design.

The Air Force is seeking to retire 310 aircraft, including another attempt to cut dozens of F-22 Raptors, while only buying 95 new planes.

First seen more than a century ago, a dummy of the kind apparently designed to draw enemy sniper fire has appeared in a Ukrainian trench.

The Air Force has shifted course in its plans for the F-15EX Eagle II, increasing its fleet size target by 24 aircraft in its latest budget.

The collection of refurbished Danish, Dutch, and German Leopard 1A5s will outfit a couple of Ukrainian tank battalions.

Iranian state media claims the rumored deal for Sukhoi Su-35 fighters has been executed as Moscow-Tehran ties deepen.

The first 12 FA-50GF "Gap Fillers" should arrive in Poland this summer, with 36 advanced FA-50PL coming later.

The bunker is open!

The Air Force loyal wingman drone program won't be 'attritable,' but it will be based around a new concept called 'affordable mass.'

Biden has picked a livery for the new Air Force One jets in line with the existing Kennedy-era design over Trump's red, white, and blue one.

Russia's controversial Wagner Group could take on a reduced role in the next phase of fighting for the city of Bakhmut, it’s been claimed.

The flights are being simulated with just one pilot and one loadmaster, with the latter working to support the single pilot in the cockpit.

Russia fired six Kh-47 hypersonic ballistic missiles Thursday, at Ukraine, a weapon Kyiv says it cannot yet defeat.

Decorated Air Force A-10 Warthog pilot Kim “KC” Campbell shares her memories of a harrowing mission over Iraq in 2003.

The Air Force sees missiles with articulating noses as one way to take on increasingly maneuverable threats.

The F-35's Block 4 upgrade has many features, but Air Combat Command's commander says its electronic warfare abilities will be most critical.

The Air Force should cancel the F-15EX unless it buys significantly more than the 80 planned, an unjustified cut from the 144 it once wanted.

An assessment from the U.S. intelligence community suggests that Putin will increasingly be forced to fight a long game in Ukraine.

Arming Ukraine's MiG-29s with AIM-120 missiles could be beneficial, but doing so would be a complex affair with potentially limited returns.