Anduril’s FQ-44 Fury is one of two Increment 1 CCA designs selected for production. The other is General Atomics’ FQ-42 Vengeance. In June 2026, the Air Force awarded both companies engineering, ...

The Ilyushin Il-20 first appeared decades ago, yet NATO fighters were still being sent to identify the aircraft in 2026. In March, Norwegian F-35s shadowed an Il-20M flying in international airspace ...

A propeller-driven aircraft can train pilots for modern fighter jets. That sounds strange until you see what the Pilatus PC-21 is actually built to do. The PC-21 isn’t a faster version of a basic ...

A trainer jet is not supposed to become one of Asia’s most interesting military aircraft families. The KAI T-50 Golden Eagle did exactly that. Developed by Korea Aerospace Industries with Lockheed ...

When a military helicopter spends more time supporting people than chasing targets, its value can be easy to overlook. But in the United States, some of the most important aviation missions happen far ...

A Gulfstream business jet is about to become one of the U.S. Air Force’s strangest combat aircraft. The EA-37B Compass Call looks familiar from the outside. Its roots are in the Gulfstream G550, a jet ...

For more than four decades, the EC-130H Compass Call fought a battle most people could never see. Rather than relying on conventional weapons, this unusual U.S. Air Force aircraft operated in the ...

A photo can make a new aircraft look operational long before it actually is. That’s the trap with the FQ-42 Vengeance right now. General Atomics has shown the uncrewed fighter… ...

A missile usually needs a target before it leaves the launcher. The IAI Harop Drone turns that sequence on its head: it can fly into an area, search for a target, and remain there until an operator ...

What do you do when the cargo is so big, so heavy, or so awkward that almost every cargo aircraft on Earth simply isn’t an option? You bring out the Antonov An-124 Ruslan. This enormous aircraft was ...

A ground-attack aircraft does something few other military aircraft are built to do: get close enough to the battlefield to make a direct difference on the ground, then survive the trip home. That ...