Crunching the numbers of two defense aerospace juggernauts.

On March 16, 1916, the U.S. Army's 1st Aero Squadron flew its first military mission over foreign territory during the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa in Mexico.

The continent of Europe has created some of the most capable military aircraft in history, indeed the first combat action by an aeroplane was in Italian service. In the First World War, all of the ...

Fighter planes get a lot of press. Fast, sleek, and impossibly advanced, the image of the knights of the sky dueling to the death in their cockpits is a highly romanticized facet of aerial warfare.

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F-22 production stopped at 187 aircraft and B-2 at 21 bombers due to extreme procurement and development costs. Specialized interceptors like the MiG-25 and F-106 lost relevance when strategic ...

Boeing is best recognized by the general public today for its giant commuter jets (as well as more than a few in-air mishaps with the 737 Max of late), and more entartaining projects like building a ...

Surface-to-air missiles invalidated speed and altitude as reliable survivability strategies faster than planners anticipated. Interceptor missions vanished as strategic threats shifted from bombers to ...