The Battle of Kursk became a brutal contest in the skies as thousands of Soviet aircraft overwhelmed a shrinking Luftwaffe.

Germany's blitzkrieg through France in June 1940 left the UK all alone against Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe. It was also a wake up call for the U.S.- still on the sidelines of World War II - that its air ...

Britain’s best fighter aircraft of the early part of World War 2, the Supermarine Spitfire, was closely matched to the German ...

After leaving Hamburg in early 2024, the first PEGASUS returned to Germany to receive the dedicated Kalætron Integral SIGINT ...

World War II aircraft were painted in a wide assortment of colors, from shades of gray to olive drab, blue, and camouflage patterns. British planes were painted Dark Earth, Dark Green, and Night — a ...

The Second World War was in many ways an aerial war. While previous wars had taken place on land and sea, and thousands of fighter planes flew over the battlefields of World War I, the development of ...

When you think of the Luftwaffe during World War II, you think of the Messerschmitt Bf-109 and not much else. Sure, the Fw-190 is a wonderful second fiddle, but the 109 drove fear into the hearts of ...

Ironically, as soon as the F-35A is completed and enters service, it will be returned to the United States for pilot training.

THE Junkers 87, better known as the Stuka dive-bomber, has registered on the popular imagination more deeply than any other airplane thus far exhibited in combat. Its swooping, plunging flight has a ...