Snoopy, the Flying Ace, sits on top of his dog house with gritted teeth, wearing his cap, goggles and scarf. His house stands in for his plane: a Sopwith Camel.

The US Navy is trying to recover two aircraft from the bottom of the South China Sea that US experts say could yield sensitive information to China if Beijing were to get to them first. The aircraft – ...

A Newsweek map tracks the path of a United States military spy plane flying over the South China Sea near Hainan Island on Thursday, where China has homeported two aircraft carriers. The U.S. Pacific ...

A flight instructor and her student — a father-to-be and US Navy officer — are presumed dead after their plane plummeted into a New Orleans lake, according to authorities and reports. Taylor Dickey, ...

Military aircraft come in all shapes and sizes, but these days nearly all of them have one thing in common: they are painted grey. Boring, monotonous grey. But military aviation has a colorful history ...

The potency of the US Navy’s air power increased at a bewildering rate during the second world war. From hair-raising early exploits against a superior opponent, ever more capable military aircraft ...

The US Navy’s beleaguered shipbuilding program took a major hit on Tuesday as Navy Secretary John Phelan announced he was cancelling plans to buy Constellation-class frigates, once heralded as a key ...

A flight instructor and her student, a U.S. Navy officer who was also a father-to-be, are presumed dead after their small plane plunged into a New Orleans lake, according to authorities and local ...

An F/A-18E makes an arrested landing on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. (MC3 Julia Brockman/Navy) The number of major accidents involving military aircraft ...

The USN terminated work on four Constellation-class frigates, shown here in a rendering. (US Navy) The US Navy (USN) is making a “strategic shift away from the Constellation-class frigate programme”, ...

Have you ever wondered what the letters and numbers in US military aircraft names like F-22 or C-130 actually mean? The US Military uses a simple yet rigid designation system to identify every single ...

The Navy has deployed a salvage ship to the South China Sea to attempt to raise a sunken fighter and a helicopter that crashed off the USS Nimitz in back-to-back incidents in October. The USNS Salvor, ...