Few moments in modern aerial combat test a fighter pilot’s limits quite like staring down an incoming surface-to-air missile.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. At 13, Dave Berke watched "Top Gun" and decided he wanted to become a fighter pilot. Decades later, he ...

In one of the strangest events in Cold War history, a Soviet MiG-23 fighter plane flew without its pilot for 560 miles before crashing into a Belgian farm, killing an 18-year-old. The Soviet pilot had ...

A former US Air Force fighter pilot with more than two decades of experience with nuclear delivery systems and aircraft, including advanced F-35 stealth jets, has been arrested and charged with ...

Dave Berke served for over 23 years as a USMC fighter pilot, TOPGUN graduate and instructor, and combat veteran. Berke became the first operational pilot qualified in the F-35B Lightning II. He flew ...

Planes being downed are the worst fear of fighter pilots and a scenario for which they undergo extensive training, according to current and former fighter pilots. “You prepare for a downing and ...