A Fighter Built for the Impossible The Blohm & Voss BV 155 was born out of desperation, as Allied bombers soared to high ...

The German 88 mm gun, one of the most iconic artillery pieces of WWII, had a well-deserved reputation for deadly accuracy and ...

Had the war dragged on into late 1945 and early 1946, production model B-29s might have been in the skies over Germany and challenged by the BV 155 high-altitude interceptor aircraft.

Stratolaunch completed two flights of its autonomous Talon-A2 rocket plane earlier this year, as the US aims to gain ground in its race for hypersonic supremacy with China.

On March 4, 1945, the last German aircraft to be brought down over British soil in the Second World War crashed at Elvington near York.

German officials want more interchangeable launcher-missile combinations, which could cut into Lockheed Martin's hold on the market.

World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war for new modern dogfighters.

Messerschmitt Me 163B at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The webpage for the Museum states this about the particular aircraft: "This Me 163B (S/N 191095) may ...

From the Zero to the Messerschmitt Bf-109, Axis powers in World War II fielded some terribly fearsome aircraft. Here are 10 of their most iconic fighter jets.

World War II witnessed technological leaps in aircraft design and performance that recast the nature of air warfare. Wood-and-fabric biplanes were replaced with streamlined, all-metal aircraft.

A Russian Il-20 intelligence aircraft, also referred to by its NATO reporting name, Coot-A, was flying without a transponder over the Baltic, the German air force said.