THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Global military spending surged to an unprecedented $2.72 trillion in 2024, jumping 9.4% from the ...

Helicopters have their roots in the pre-World War II era. Renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci famously conceptualized his aerial screw as far back as the 15th century, though the inventor never ...

“Faster than a speeding bullet” may bring to mind a certain superhero from the planet Krypton, but it was literally true of the SR-71 Blackbird, the sleek, stealthy Air Force spy plane taken ...

At the peak of the Cold War, the sparsely populated ... space for maintaining the aircraft systems, and crew areas. Then around 40 years ago it was closed down and mothballed.