Born from Cold War paranoia, the Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack first took to the skies in 1981 as the Soviet Union’s ultimate ...

The Il-28 bomber saw extensive wartime service across the globe. Deployed by over 20 nations, it fought in the Biafran and ...

The B-1 Lancer program was curtailed in the 1970s as an unnecessary waste of taxpayer dollars. That changed when Ronald Reagan entered office.

As the Cold War took shape, Canada faced a stark reality as the shortest route for Soviet bombers to reach North America ran straight across the Arctic. With little time to rely on foreign designs, ...

At 3:39 p.m. on January 21, 1968, the aircraft slammed into the ice seven miles west of the base. The impact carved a ...

Combat aircraft often take decades to design and are based on strategic assumptions that rarely align with actual future conflicts. Many Cold War interceptors designed for nuclear bomber threats ...

From the jagged stealth of the F-117 to the blistering speed of the MiG-25, these 17 aircraft waged a high-altitude shadow ...

The US military was spotted testing a new stealth nuclear weapon on a Cold War bomber last week — just as the Air Force was preparing to test its Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile An ...

Barnsley, Eng.: Air World Pen and Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2025. Pp. 304. Illus., plans, tables, biblio., index. $54.95. ISBN: 1526787318 The First ...

The B-2 was a generational leap in strategic stealth bombing capabilities and is not be superseded until 2027 when the B-21 ...