During the Cold War, military aircraft of the opposing blocks would often meet over the Iron Curtain, the border between Western and Communist countries of Europe. Such encounters usually ended ...

The Cold War set the stage for aerial combat between iconic jet-powered fighter aircraft. By the early 1950s, the world's superpowers' first generation of jet fighters were ready for battle. They just ...

The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, better known simply as the F-15, is a legend of the skies. Sleek, fast, and boasting an array of weapons, the F-15 has been a staple of the United States Air Force's ...

If you know anything about Republic Aviation, it's because of one of two airplanes. Either the hellfire raining, 30-mm autocannon sporting A-10 Warthog, or because of its plucky forbearer, the P-47 ...

Above the skies of the Korean Peninsula, the F-86 Sabre formed one part of an epic aerial rivalry—against the MiG-15, the Soviet Union’s first mass-produced jet. If asked to name the most numerously ...

However, the Red Army captured numerous scientists, research facilities and prototype technologies when it rolled into eastern Germany—including Jumo 004 and BMW 003 turbojets designed for the Nazi’s ...

The F-15 twin-engine, high-performance, all-weather air superiority fighter became operational in November 1974 as the first aircraft in the US Military arsenal that could accelerate in a vertical ...