It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...

When WW2 began, the Western Front initially saw little ground combat. But there was plenty of action in the air. On 08 September 1939, six H 75 Hawks of the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air) were ...

In the U.S.-led alliance system that emerged after World War II, Washington and its allies have each ... denial strategies rest on anti-tank weapons, precision-guided rockets, mines, short-range ...

March 18 (UPI) --The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died ... after being hit by German anti-aircraft fire.

Ultimately, Britain did ally with the USSR: The threat of a Nazi victory in World War II outweighed the costs ... the Soviet military shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 on its way to Seoul ...

it examined 10 reports of unidentified flying object sightings, followed by an unequivocal assessment from the German rocket expert Walther ... Ruppelt, who led the Air Force’s internal U.F.O ...

There are variations regarding launch systems and preferred targets, which is why there are air, naval ... in warfare was the German V-1, developed by the Nazis during WWII, though it was heavy ...

The Ukrainian air force later said Russia had launched ... United States — the guarantor of Europe's security since World War II — should continue its central role in NATO.

German is known to want to acquire about 160 RCH 155 to accompany a fleet of around 100 tracked 155mm/L52 PzH 2000 platforms. In the air domain, Germany’s portion of the pan-European Airbus will be ...

Near the end of World War II, the face of air combat was rapidly ... shooting down 14 V-1 rockets, the earliest cruise missile type to be used. However, the Meteor was not permitted to cross into ...

Using a hand-picked team of around 30 men, Low rapidly built a pilotless plane launched from the back of a truck using compressed air (also ... for their V1 rocket program in WWII.