Aircraft useful against insurgents and low-intensity conflicts are not necessarily the same as those useful against a peer-on ...

The F-35B is the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) variant designed for smaller aircraft carriers and the Marines' ...

The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force (RAF) is the cornerstone of Britain’s defense capabilities. Its fleet features an ...

The United States Marine Corps will retire the last of its McDonnell Douglas AV-8B+ Harrier II fighters in just under two years, as Marine Attack Squadron 223 (VMA-223) continues to transition to the ...

While the design of the fighter jet may seem set in stone these days, in the decades after World War II, companies tried out ...

Matt in one of his favourite aircraft. When you’ve flown 52 different aircraft types (and counting), you often get asked what your favourite is. So, it was a welcome change when I was asked to ...

In the 1980s, the U.S. considered converting four Iowa-class battleships into "battlecarriers," blending battleship firepower ...

B, which continued flying for 64 miles after the pilot ejected, was attributed to pilot error. The investigation revealed ...

As of now, these include convertiplanes, tilt-rotors, tilt-wings, rotor-wings, tail-sitters, and VSTOL aircraft like the Harrier and the F-35B Lighting II that use vector thrust, lift jets ...

The U.S. Marine Corps completed its investigation into the 2023 F-35B crash in Williamsburg County last year, attributing the ...

The squadron’s aircraft include the F-35B ... During that time, Del Pizzo took VMA-231′s AV-8B Harrier attack jets into ...