Throughout U.S. military history, a small number of aircraft have done something more disruptive than outperform their ...

Other fighter jets made in America and partner nations like the F-15EX Eagle II, Eurofighter Typhoon, or even Dassault Rafale posted far lower numbers for the year. Similarly, the delivery rate of ...

The Air Force awarded Boeing a $2 billion contract to start replacing the first two Stratofortress's engines with new Rolls-Royce engines. (Tech. Sgt. Codie Trimble/Air Force) In December the Air ...

The new upgrade package—on top of an existing $2.6 billion contract with UK engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce—will keep the B-52 bombers flying indefinitely into the future. The United States Air Force ...

Boeing Co.’s site at Port San Antonio will be working on the nation’s oldest bomber aircraft through at least 2033 under a new contract with the Pentagon. The Defense Department awarded the aerospace ...

US airframer Boeing has been awarded a contract worth more than $2 billion to modernise the company’s iconic B-52H heavy-bomber with new turbofan engines. The US Air Force (USAF) approved the funding ...

MOCKSVILLE - History was being made in Tokyo Bay that day in September 1945, and Leo "Sheek" Bowden Jr. was slated to play a small role in the formal end of World War II.

The U.S. Air Force flight test community received the first Boeing B-52 equipped with the RTX APQ-188 radar and related systems, allowing the next phase of the over-budget, $3.3 billion upgrade ...

The US Air Force (USAF) has begun the process of evaluating a new radar for its fleet of Boeing B-52H heavy bombers. A lone B-52H, equipped with a modernised active electronically scanned array (AESA) ...

The Boeing B-52 is on track to become the first jet-powered aircraft to reach 100 years of continuous service, a milestone it will hit in the 2050s, thanks in part to its strategic reinvention and ...

The Air Force’s 15th F-15EX could be the first delivered to after the three-month strike at the St. Louis plant impacted production of the Eagle II and the F/A-18 Super Hornet Block III. Boeing ...

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress #42-63363, nicknamed Marietta Misfit, crashed onto hilly terrain in Pingshun while returning from a sortie to attack Japanese-occupied Manchuria. All 11 crew members ...