A modern fighter jet’s weapons systems officer is responsible for monitoring sensor data, operating weapons, and conducting ...

This video tells the true story of how Germany’s powerful radar network suddenly collapsed in 1943. It follows the men who operated those systems and the Allied crews and scientists who learned to ...

How chaff was invented in World War II. Roger Connor Whipple donated this packet of chaff, a cardboard envelope filled with hundreds of strands of aluminum. Center: A Boeing B-17 airman pushes chaff ...

This week's Protective Fence 25 drill will involve a total of around 50 aircraft and 1,200 personnel, including members of the Swedish and Danish air forces. The Finnish Air Force began the largest ...

If you've watched "Top Gun," you might've noticed that the F/A-18's countermeasures use chaff/flare. While both chaff and flares are used by military aircraft to defend against incoming missiles, they ...

When you think of a city, you might imagine nonstop activity, with thousands of people working around the clock and following their daily schedule. Now picture all of that, but on one of the world's ...

Leonardo UK has been described as the “only contractor who possesses the manufacturing technology, infrastructure, capacity, and platform qualifications to complete all requirements” and deliver the ...

President Trump was so frustrated with the Boeing Company’s delays in producing new versions of Air Force One that he accepted a new Boeing 747 from the Qataris to serve as that aircraft. Boeing ...

A nonprofit environmental organization in northern Lower Michigan has sued the U.S. Air Force and National Guard in U.S. District Court, alleging that plans to expand low-altitude flight training in ...

Chinese fighter jets have been popping flares or releasing chaff near foreign aircraft. Most recently, a Chinese J-16 let off flares close to an Australian P-8A to warn it off. This tactic has been ...