The rudimentary nature of the OA-1K Skyraider II, which will serve alongside such advanced machines as the F-22 Raptor and AH-64 Apache, is in fact one of the aircraft’s upsides.

It may seem counterintuitive that the Air Force is handling a propeller-driven aircraft in 2025 ... on using them for missions including close air support, armed intelligence, surveillance ...

a nod to the Cold War-era propeller plane that delivered close air support during the Vietnam War. Lt. Gen. Michael Conley, head of Air Force Special Operations Command, announced the name of the ...

Built by defense contractor L3Harris, the OA-1K Skyraider II won the Armed Overwatch Program and is designed to provide ...

SOCOM plans to use these single-engine, fixed-wing, heavily armored fighter planes to provide "close air support, precision strike, armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR ...

The Navy has rejected a proposal to move its Growler electronic attack squadrons from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island to ...

(The final prototype had a front engine and propeller.) The plane's stall speed was very ... was intended to perform a close air support mission for ground troops, similar to the legendary A ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair Thursday and crashed upside-down into the Hudson ...

The victims of the helicopter crash were identified as Siemens executive Agustin Escobar, his wife Mercè Camprubí Montal, ...

including an evaluation of the airplane’s center of gravity location. [Shock, grief and support: Remembering the 10 Alaskans who died on Bering Air Flight 445] Bering Air, in operation since ...

NEW YORK — A helicopter broke apart in midair and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New ...