History is filled with military aircraft that looked like expensive miscalculations long before they ever saw combat.

The United States has stationed combat aircraft in El Salvador, marking a shift in its military approach to regional security threats. Flights from the country’s main international airport began in ...

Across the United States military, some of the most decisive combat missions are still flown by aircraft that first took to the skies when slide rules and vacuum tubes were standard tools. America’s ...

An F/A-18E makes an arrested landing on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. (MC3 Julia Brockman/Navy) The number of major accidents involving military aircraft ...