The US Navy X-47B drone proved unmanned carrier aviation was possible. Discover why the groundbreaking stealth UCAV never ...

A bomb doesn’t need its own engine to reach targets far from the aircraft that releases it. The AGM-154 JSOW (Joint Standoff Weapon) proves the point with folding wings, satellite navigation, and ...

Europe doesn’t need every military helicopter to be an Apache-sized gunship. Sometimes, a smaller aircraft that can carry troops, scout ahead, and support armed missions makes more sense. That’s where ...

A missile traveling at more than twice the speed of sound is dangerous. Give it a warhead weighing close to a ton, and the threat becomes far more serious. But Russia’s Kh-22 missile has a weakness ...

Germany is betting that a relatively small uncrewed aircraft could help its fighter force do more without putting another pilot at risk. The aircraft at the center of that plan is the XQ-58A Valkyrie, ...

The GBU-31 JDAM looks almost boring. It has no dramatic rocket motor. No exotic seeker sits in its nose. At its core, it is a large gravity bomb fitted with a guidance kit. That simple idea changed ...

A missile does not have to be the biggest weapon in the launcher to be the most interesting. The PAC-3 missile takes a very different approach to air and missile defense. Instead of relying mainly on ...

The F/A-18 Hornet should have been yesterday’s fighter by now. Its first flight came in 1978. The U.S. Navy began receiving production Hornets in 1983. By fighter standards, that makes the original ...