NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former Navy fighter pilot Matthew "Whiz" Buckley about the U.S. rescue mission for the crew members of an F-15 fighter jet shot down over Iran.

Designing a stealth jet is difficult. Designing one that can survive years of arrested landings, catapult launches, salt ...

Stealth tends to get the glamour, but carrier aviation still rewards an older virtue: arriving over the deck under control.

The Trump administration is, once again, going all in on the development of the Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter while ...

Navy Veteran Dan Baxter speaking in corporate classrooms with Spartan TP – all photos Dan Baxter Naval Academy graduate, decorated fighter pilot and now high-level corporate trainer and consultant, ...

The Super Hornet, assigned to VFA-87 on the USS Gerald R. Ford, got a kill marking for taking out a Syrian Su-22 in 2017. By Nicholas Slayton Published Mar 14, 2026 6:07 PM EDT Add Task & Purpose ...

“WE GOT HIM!” President Donald Trump posted after an intense, deception-laden effort by the CIA and U.S. forces to bring the ...

Included in the Department of Defense’s enormous proposed Fiscal Year 2027 budget is a procurement request for an additional 85 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets.

Iran shooting down two American military jets marks an exceedingly rare assault for the U.S. that hasn't happened in more ...

Two former U.S. Navy fighter pilots are aboard the first crewed orbit around the moon in more than 50 years after launching ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A F/A-18E Super Hornet that shot down a Syrian Su-22 in 2017 launches from the USS Gerald R. Ford in the Caribbean in December ...