Autonomous air combat reached a major milestone in the skies over Edwards Air Force Base, California, as the X-62A VISTA test aircraft carried out full AI air intercept missions using live sensor data ...

The loss of an F-15E Strike Eagle over Iran sent shockwaves through the defense community — not just because of the aircraft ...

The skies above Edwards Air Force Base witnessed something extraordinary in the summer of 2026 — a fighter jet maneuvering ...

Following years of research and development on artificial intelligence, on Wednesday the Air Force announced it had down-selected two companies that would build and test prototype aircraft in a ...

Although designed and designated as a bomber, the B-21 Raider can more usefully be thought of as a stealthy, networked, long-range aircraft capable of employing a considerable payload of large weapons ...

The Air Force still plans to award an engineering and manufacturing development contract for the Next Generation Air Dominance family of systems this year, the head of Air Combat Command said ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Cubic Defense, a leading provider of technology solutions including advanced air combat training, as a partner in its Air Combat ...

The age of the piloted fighter aircraft may not be over but the US Air Force has shown that it may be time to start collecting the coats, as it has designated two prototype combat drones as official ...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded the two companies the funding for detailed designs, manufacture, and testing of production representative test articles under the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) ...

Drones have been around for a long time, but they've only become major players in global military operations in the late 20th century. That's when aircraft like the RQ-1 (later MQ-1) Predator first ...

The successful test represents “an important next step” in the development of autonomous aircraft, the Air Force says ...