As a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, Orbital ATK designs, builds and delivers space, defense and aviation-related systems to customers around the world both as a prime contractor ...

In March, AFSOC cut the number it was acquiring from 75 to 62. But AFSOC still hasn’t justified why it needs 75 light attack ...

The U-2 Dragon Lady provided the U.S. Air Force with intelligence throughout the Cold War The U-2’s ability to fly at ...

The U.S. Air Force is among an elite club of air forces that has access to fifth-generation fighter jets The F-22 Raptor and ...

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The AV-8B V/STOL strike aircraft was designed to replace the AV-8A and the A-4M light attack aircraft. The Marine Corps requirement for a V/STOL light attack force has been well documented since ...

LONDON, England -- The CASA CN-235 that crashed in Turkey killing 37 people is often used by armed forces for emergency evacuations of injured troops. The aircraft can carry up to 53 paratroopers ...

Sikorsky Aircraft showed off its new S-97 Raider late last week. The new light-attack helicopter uses a strange "coaxial design." What that means is, the top of the chopper has two counter ...

It replaces the AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters (those that function as scouts in air cavalry troops and light attack companies ... be sent digitally to other aircraft or artillery via its advanced ...

The OA-X program has the US Air Force looking at new horizons for close air support in the identification of a cost-effective ...

There’s also an original factory mockup of the OV-10 Bronco, a twin-turboprop light attack aircraft developed in the 1960s for the Air Force, Navy and Marines Corps. A Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet ...

The aircraft angle of attack (AOA) is defined as the angle of the oncoming wind relative to the aircraft's reference line. In other words, the angle that the oncoming air makes with the center of ...