It isn’t the “stealth” that will be a factor, but that the U.S. Air Force won’t retire the fleet of just 19 active aircraft ...
The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that B-21 Raider next generation strategic bombers could assume a substantially greater role ...
Russia’s Tu-160 strategic bomber remains the world’s leading supersonic aircraft of its class, according to Yury Abrosimov, ...
The US Air Force's second B-21 Raider nuclear bomber has taken to the skies for the first time. The second of a planned fleet of 100, the sixth-gen aircraft took off from Northrop Grumman's Palmdale, ...
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was designed to be America’s ultimate high-speed nuclear bomber, capable of reaching 2,056 mph at 73,000 feet. Powered by six afterburning engines, the massive ...
There are few nations in the world which have an operational fleet of strategic bomber aircraft. Those air forces belong to the United States, Russia, and China. Although the United Kingdom was once a ...
The bomber is a menacing sight for any pilot or target on the receiving end of its payload. Aerial combat is only around a century old, but it quickly bisected itself into two distinct aircraft types.
Back in the late Cold War years, the U.S. was racing to stay ahead of the Soviet Union. This led them to develop a new kind of aircraft. This bomber, which was unlike anything the world had ever seen ...
Together, the two bombers offer China a layered bomber corps, with long-range stealth for global posturing and a fast, survivable strike option for near-term coercion. As China’s revisionist ambitions ...
The planned attack was part of a broader Iranian plot to target the aircraft and kill American pilots at RAF Fairford, officials said.
Japan’s Joint Staff Office reported a Russian IL-20 Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) aircraft flew southwest over the Sea of Japan, Jan. 23, 2026. Japan Joint Staff Office photo Japan scrambled fighter ...