Speed is usually sold as the ultimate advantage in air combat, the quality that lets a fighter jet sprint through danger and vanish before an enemy can react. Yet the faster an aircraft moves, the ...

Military fighter jets are among the fastest aircraft in the history of aviation. But for some of these planes in the early 1990s, their incredible speed made them a target for enemy radar. One example ...

Piston-engined fighters ruled the roost for thirty years. A brutal survival of the fittest ensured a rapid evolution of these ...

The days of fighter jets outrunning ground defenses are long since past, and new aerial innovations are focused on stealth and sensor technology. But raw speed still has a place. Supersonic flight, ...

The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...

The skies of the 20th century were awash with the roars of fighter aircraft, and few, if any, nation produced as many impressive machines as the United States. From the 1940s onwards, the US created ...