Born from Cold War paranoia, the Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack first took to the skies in 1981 as the Soviet Union’s ultimate ...

The Il-28 bomber saw extensive wartime service across the globe. Deployed by over 20 nations, it fought in the Biafran and ...

For decades, a Cold War-era bomber watched over U.S. 31 from the outdoor display at Grissom Air Museum. The B-58 Hustler Bomber, the first aircraft capable of Mach 2 flight, moved at a snail’s pace ...

The B-1 Lancer program was curtailed in the 1970s as an unnecessary waste of taxpayer dollars. That changed when Ronald Reagan entered office.

Combat aircraft often take decades to design and are based on strategic assumptions that rarely align with actual future conflicts. Many Cold War interceptors designed for nuclear bomber threats ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force kept nuclear-armed bombers in the sky 24/7 under Operation Chrome Dome. These flights ...

Barnsley, Eng.: Air World Pen and Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2025. Pp. 304. Illus., plans, tables, biblio., index. $54.95. ISBN: 1526787318 The First ...

The US military was spotted testing a new stealth nuclear weapon on a Cold War bomber last week — just as the Air Force was preparing to test its Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile An ...

The B-2 was a generational leap in strategic stealth bombing capabilities and is not be superseded until 2027 when the B-21 ...