Military Aircraft

BEIJING -- Chinese and Japanese fighter planes tailed each other over a disputed cluster of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, raising alarm that a miscalculation could set off an armed confrontation. Chinese military authorities ordered two J-...

WASHINGTION -- Iran said it took "decisive" action after a U.S. drone entered Iranian airspace in the Persian Gulf last week, a commander said. "Iran will use all its capabilities, including the relevant international agencies, to follow up on this case,...

The Air Force believes that it's solved the years-long mystery of why F-22 pilots have suffered potentially dangerous, hypoxia-like symptoms aboard the world's most advanced jet fighter. And the answer is so insanely simple, some Congressmen don't...

Three vintage planes are on display at Wichita’s Jabara Airport, Friday through Sunday, as part of the Wings of Freedom Tour. The North American P-51 Mustang, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and the Consolidated B-24 Liberator three of the most famous...

FELICITY —- An AV-8B Harrier fighter jet carrying live ordnance crashed Wednesday near here, making this at least the seventh Harrier to crash in eastern Imperial County since 1996. The pilot involved in Wednesday’s crash ejected safely, a...

FELICITY — The Marine AV-8B Harrier fighter jet that crashed here Wednesday likely went down due to mechanical failure, according to early findings, a Marine Corps Air Station Yuma spokeswoman said. The pilot, who has not yet been identified, was...

The Syrian military has deployed fighter jets to attack rebel positions in the northern battleground city of Aleppo, the United Nations confirmed Wednesday....

Iranian columnists slams international opposition to Syria: As battles rage across Syria, the crisis has provoked a renewed round of saber-rattling in Iran, President Bashar Assad's staunchest international ally. An influential columnist in an Iranian...

This story sounds like a scene out of Top Gun. An F-15 fighter jet was caught on camera buzzing by a small plane near Long Island, New York. Talk about close call! Believe it or not it was actually done on purpose.   You see, the fighter jet was...

One of my most treasured memories from many years of reporting was the chance to ride with the Blue Angels in the early 1990s. An excursion in a fighter jet — even my truncated media flight — trumps any roller coaster ride on the planet. I'...

Syrian rebels claimed Monday that they had shot down a government fighter jet and captured its pilot, and videos posted on an exiled opposition website purported to show the Russian-made MiG-23 struck by machine-gun fire and engulfed in flames....

Amid escalating cross-border tensions, Syrian President Bashar Assad has told a Turkish newspaper that he regrets “100%” Syria’s downing of a Turkish aircraft last month and said ground gunners assumed the jet was an Israeli warplane....