The US " Doomsday Plane " has been spotted flying over the US Midwest, taking off from Oklahoma and circling over Nebraska ...

are extensively used in the ongoing war in Ukraine by both sides. Despite their age, these aircraft continue to offer considerable capabilities. From the Western perspective, the prospect of ...

North American was one of the great American aerospace manufacturers and built the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, the B-1 Lancer, ...

The retrofitted Boeing 747s were made for war. Originally designed in 1973, the E-4 series planes were thought to be the best way a president during the Cold War might survive a nuclear explosion.

Unlike other Cold War aircraft, built with aggressively swept wings, the A-1 featured perfectly straight, low-mounted wings. The straight wings allowed for adept maneuvering at low speeds ...

(Staff Sgt. Natalie Fiorilli/Air Force) FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida — Air Force Special Operations Command has dubbed its newest aircraft Skyraider II, a nod to the Cold War-era propeller plane ...

When in October 1962 American U-2 spy planes photographed missile sites ... met his death in 1967. As the Cold War settled into détente in the early 1970s, Fidel Castro, following the Soviet ...