British man becomes first civilian to fly supersonic in an F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base. The thrilling flight, captured in ...

Sometimes, the military planes you see in the air aren't ours, but test flights of craft intended for other countries, like this F-16 spotted in Texas.

High above the sprawling plains of Texas, a critical piece of Taiwan’s future air defense network has officially taken to the skies. Aviation spotters and defense analysts recently documented one of ...

The F-35 wearing the tail code “WW” will join Misawa’s 35th Fighter Wing and fly the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) mission from Japan. On June 16, 2026, the F-35A Lightning II aircraft ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The F-47 is expected to make its first flight in 2028, the Air Force’s top officer said Monday—advancing the timeline by a year. Officials had previously said the sixth-gen combat ...

LONDON—Long-awaited flight testing of MBDA’s Spear 3 mini cruise missile on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has begun. The turbojet-powered missile, which is set to become the primary ...

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General David Allvin announced on Sept. 22, 2025 that Boeing had begun the manufacturing process for the first production F-47, with a goal of seeing it airborne by 2028.

The Navy has launched a Programmed Structural Sustainment Repair program for the dozens of F-16s acquired from the Air Force, which will allow them to fly through 2035. The U.S. Naval Air Systems ...

A Lockheed Martin F-16 from the US Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team has crashed during a training flight in California, with the pilot ejecting safely and remaining in stable condition. A ...

The US Air Force (USAF) has completed an operational assessment of Northrop Grumman’s ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) with the Lockheed Martin F-16. The US Air Force (USAF) ...

Weight (MTOW) ~37,500 lb (~17,000 kg); varies by block / configuration ~51,000–52,000 lb (23,200–23,600 kg); varies by model and loadout Engine(s) One Pratt & Whitney F100 or GE F110 afterburning ...