The Cold War ushered in a “renaissance for bomber aviation.” But the Kremlin’s demands for the Sukhoi T-4MS were more than the company could handle.

The Vickers Swallow was decades ahead of its time—but it never left the drawing board. Designed in the 1950s as both a ...

A KH-22 supersonic cruise missile fell from the suspension pylons of a Russian Tu-22M3 bomber in the the Yelets district of ...

The U.S. Air Force long has kept the same three bombers in rotation, but that will soon change. The United States has the most robust fleet of strategic bombers on Earth. For a generation, the U.S.

In 1963, the Lockheed A-12 (code-named “Archangel”) became America’s first supersonic stealth plane. Incredibly fast, much ...

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...