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Company artwork shows proposals for vertical take-off and landing fighter jets, interceptors, sub hunters, and more.

Special operations personnel in Iraq and Syria have been responsible for nearly one third of all the brutal terrorist group's casualties.

The B-26N's job was to find and shoot down small aircraft smuggling supplies under the cover of darkness to the rebels in Algeria.

For years, the U.S. Air Force's 318th Special Operations Squadron's small PC-12 and C-145A aircraft supported secretive operations across five continents.

The F-14 proved to be a handful for many pilots, but for fighter pilot-in-training Paul Nickell, landing the huge fighter became an elusive skill to master—and one that would end his dream if he didn't succeed.

The F-117 had extendable antenna farms that could detect and possibly locate enemy radar emitters—or did it?

We go in-depth with Dan Hampton, one of the most decorated fighter pilots of our time, on everything from air combat to geopolitics.

Under the new administration the Navy could maximize a planned budget increase and tailor its force to 21st century demands.

We talk with a P-8 pilot about how the jet is rapidly maturing into one of the Pentagon's most versatile and in-demand assets—one that has now been deployed to most of the major hotspots around the globe.

No this is not a prop from the latest Fast and the Furious movie.

From chasing down SR-71 Blackbirds to having an engine explode beneath him, the life of a young Tomcat pilot at the height of the Cold War was far from dull.

The problem appears to be getting worse, and some fed up pilots are boycotting their flight schedules.

When America says "all the options are on the table" when responding to the reclusive Communist country, Operations Plan 8010 is the literal nuclear one.

There's a reason why that movie looked so realistic.

Previously unknown unit flew John Kerry to Vietnam, helped out in the Philippines, and more.

The company told the Air Force the massive airlifter could be a super-sized replacement for the EC-135 doomsday plane.

When officials in Washington need air support for the most complex and secretive military missions, this is who they call in.

Newly declassified documents show the iconic spy plane has survived attempts to send it to the boneyard for nearly fifty years.

Take it from General Yeager—it was a damn good jet.

The concept is a modern and much more potent iteration of the "Harrier Carrier" concept used in the past.