In the years following the Korean War, the US military sought an aircraft that could combine the vertical lift of a helicopter with the speed of a fixed-wing airplane. Bell answered with the XV-3 ...

When you think of military aircraft, you probably picture sleek jets soaring through the sky, equipped with the latest technology and designed for peak performance. But believe it or not, not all ...

Surface-to-air missiles invalidated speed and altitude as reliable survivability strategies faster than planners anticipated. Interceptor missions vanished as strategic threats shifted from bombers to ...