The US Air Force could soon add a new tool to its arsenal of training aids: a full-scale replica of China’s HQ-22 surface-to-air missile system. The decoy, developed by US defense contractor Torch ...

At Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, a test bed for a new kind of air force, Major Trent McMullen is a fighter pilot learning to fly alongside the XQ-58, a drone piloted by artificial intelligence.

Pilots aboard an F-16C Fighting Falcon and an F-15E Strike Eagle each controlled two XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned aircraft in an air combat training scenario. In a groundbreaking test which has been ...

During a recent military exchange event, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) demonstrated a motion-controlled combat robot capable of replicating a human operator’s movements in real time. The ...

When the Korean War began in 1950, the United States entered a new era of air combat it barely understood. Pilots trained for the piston-engine battles of World War II suddenly faced jet fighters that ...

Although designed and designated as a bomber, the B-21 Raider can more usefully be thought of as a stealthy, networked, long-range aircraft capable of employing a considerable payload of large weapons ...

The US Air Force (USAF) plans to integrate a new augmented reality technology into some of its operational Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters. Developed by Florida-based start-up Red 6, the helmet-mounted ...