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We can talk about Night Stalker choppers, Russian super weapons of the Cold War, geopolitics, F-15Xs, strategy—you know, no big whoop.

Master aviation photographer Frank Crebas takes us rocketing through the skies alongside RNLAF test and evaluation Joint Strike Fighters.

Better known for its helicopters, the Army's top special operations aviation unit's unmanned aircraft are also in high demand.

The new weapon will give the service's fighter jets important extra stand-off firepower in the face of increasing threats.

If you like things that go boom, this place is heaven.

We breakdown the speculation swirling around the tragic and mysterious death of an elite USAF test pilot.

We get our closest and most dramatic look yet of the Night Stalkers in action during their high-profile exercise over Southern California.

Veteran SR-71 pilot gives a highly detailed tour of both cockpits and shares incredible recollections from his time flying the legendary jet.

The scene is right out of a Hollywood blockbuster action movie, backdrop and all.

Even the service's smallest units will soon have the ability to scout ahead and see into hard to reach spaces from behind cover.

The aircraft is a missing link in a lineage of shadowy unmanned flying-wing drones built by the legendary Skunk Works.

The big helicopter can execute a "pinnacle landing" maneuver that has proven to be invaluable in Afghanistan.

More than a decade after the service killed off plans for its own HH-47 rescue chopper, Air Force personnel talk up the CH-47's capabilities.

Other revelations include the Next Generation Bomber was to be armed with air-to-air missiles and the B-21 is indeed one part of a family of systems.

'Round metal objects' get ever more ornate and complex as the years go by, but this one is just about the best we have ever seen.

The US Army never adopted the eight-wheeled design, but the service is now looking at wheeled anti-aircraft vehicles once again.

The Nimitz class aircraft carrier has had some notable alternations that will allow it to serve through the second half of its 50-year service life.

After more than five years of testing, the system still hasn't proven it can reliably spot incoming threats or destroy them.

The maritime patrol and surveillance jet is orbiting high above LA in some of the busiest airspace in the country on a dark and rainy night.

General Yeager discusses everything from his most harrowing test flights to stealth technology to doing what you love for a living.