The B-52 Stratofortress carries eight engines for one simple reason: the technology of the 1940s, when it was designed, wasn't capable of powering it with anything less. Engineers didn't have much ...
The small number of B-2s in the Air Force’s inventory—and the labor-intensive process of maintaining its stealth coating—put ongoing maintenance costs as high as $200,000 per flight hour. The B-2 ...
October 1943, Papua New Guinea. We drop you directly into the role of a crewman aboard "Snafu," a real B-25 Mitchell medium bomber of the 345th Bomb Group. In this interactive mission, you choose your ...
A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress has completed its ferry flight following the installation of a new active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, marking another step in the service’s broader ...
The United States dispatched two bombers to Japan for exercises on Wednesday, a day after Russian and Chinese military aircraft "patrolled" near the U.S. ally's territory. The U.S. Air Force deployed ...
The US Air Force (USAF) has begun the process of evaluating a new radar for its fleet of Boeing B-52H heavy bombers. A lone B-52H, equipped with a modernised active electronically scanned array (AESA) ...
A US Air Force B-2 Spirit, “Spirit of Georgia,” aircraft parked by a hangar at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, Nov. 6th, 2025.US Air Force Four years after a landing-gear failure severely damaged a ...
On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building in New York City while flying in thick fog. The crash killed ...
The Boeing B-52 is on track to become the first jet-powered aircraft to reach 100 years of continuous service, a milestone it will hit in the 2050s, thanks in part to its strategic reinvention and ...