The following is the Nov. 28, 2025, Congressional Research Service in focus report U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat ...

Rear Adm. Kenneth W. “Pete” Pettigrew, a Top Gun instructor, served as a consultant on the 1986 film "Top Gun," a scene from which is shown here. (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command) Randall H.

A powerful Chinese-made missile known as the PL-15 has likely been used in a real combat situation for the very first time. According to reports, the Pakistan Air Force fired the missile amid recent ...

Pilots aboard an F-16C Fighting Falcon and an F-15E Strike Eagle each controlled two XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned aircraft in an air combat training scenario. In a groundbreaking test which has been ...

At Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, a test bed for a new kind of air force, Major Trent McMullen is a fighter pilot learning to fly alongside the XQ-58, a drone piloted by artificial intelligence.

When the Korean War began in 1950, the United States entered a new era of air combat it barely understood. Pilots trained for the piston-engine battles of World War II suddenly faced jet fighters that ...

Although designed and designated as a bomber, the B-21 Raider can more usefully be thought of as a stealthy, networked, long-range aircraft capable of employing a considerable payload of large weapons ...

Randall H. Cunningham, the sole U.S. Navy ace pilot of the Vietnam War, called him "the greatest guy I trained under," and subsequently flew practically alongside him during Operation Linebacker. In ...