Baykar Technologies has announced a major performance milestone for its Bayraktar Kizilelma unmanned fighter jet, confirming ...

The McDonnell Douglas Phantom II was one of the most successful and widely used fighter aircraft of the Cold War, and its ...

Piston-engined fighters ruled the roost for thirty years. A brutal survival of the fittest ensured a rapid evolution of these characterful machines; the final fighters were over six times faster and ...

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Fighter plane tails were dramatically reshaped after the advent of “fly-by-wire” controls, rendering the aircraft’s stability irrelevant. What’s in a tail? The tail of a fighter aircraft, specifically ...

The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...