At a Sundown ceremony at MCAS Cherry Point on June 3, 2026, the last Marine Harrier squadron sent a five-ship formation aloft to retire the AV-8B after 54 years of U.S. jump-jet service. The F-35B now carries the vertical-landing mission.
The first half of 2026 has been one of the busiest stretches in modern military aviation. From a sixth-generation Boeing
On May 22, 2026, SpaceX flew the first Version 3 of Starship — the biggest and most powerful iteration yet,
South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae is quietly becoming one of the most interesting fighter programs in the world. Born from a
The Collaborative Combat Aircraft program is the United States Air Force’s attempt to multiply the effectiveness of every sixth-generation fighter
An afterburner turns a normal jet engine into a rocket-like thrust machine by adding raw fuel to the hot exhaust
Every air-to-air and air-to-ground missile fired in anger begins with a simple engineering problem shared by every modern missile system:
Fly-by-wire is one of those phrases that sounds like jargon but describes a revolution. Before fly-by-wire, pilots moved control surfaces
The United States and China are both building sixth-generation fighters. On the surface, this looks like symmetrical competition. Dig beneath
Carrier aviation is the most expensive way to project airpower ever invented. A nuclear-powered supercarrier costs roughly thirteen billion dollars