After being rescued from a Toronto, Canada farmstead, one WWII-era fighter plane is slowly being pieced back together in a driveway in Oxfordshire, England.
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Which WWII warbirds dominated the edge of space? Discover five combat aircraft engineered with extreme service ceilings to rule high-altitude skies.
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Naval warfare has changed a tad since the inception of the United States Navy, leaving a historic trail of combat ships that no longer ride the waves.
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A buoy needs something to keep it steady, or else it would be swept away from the location it was set there to mark. Here's how they stay in place.
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One aircraft model maker spent over $38,000 building a very accurate F-14 Tomcat RC model aircraft and it looks just like the real thing (only smaller).
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Tanks, like most combustion-powered vehicles, rely on transmissions to move under their own power. But do they have manual or automatic transmissions?
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Although the U.S. Navy was hoping to get the USS Connecticut back into service this year, that seems not to be on the table as the timeline gets extended.
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An uncrewed submarine developed by the U.K. test fired a U.S.-made torpedo for the first time, giving this proof-of-concept some real momentum.
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The United States built nearly 300,000 aircraft for the Second World War, and these WWII-era planes required massive amounts of all types of materials.
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Putting logs on tanks may seem like a strange idea, but during WWII, people had reasons to do so while believing there were benefits. But now we know the truth.
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The U.S. Navy has chosen a company to build its newest fighter jets, and while this represents a major milestone, it's unclear when the jets will be ready.
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'Zero Dark Thirty' is about the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. The film's helicopters were so detailed it was hard to tell if they were real.
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Black Hawks are fast, but these military helicopters can fly even faster, from the AH-1Z Viper to the experimental SB>1 Defiant.
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The U.S. Navy has parted ways with another naval craft, and this time it's a decommissioned frigate as part of a live-fire test of new weaponry.
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Very few birds can actually soar at heights above 20,000 feet, with most keeping below 500 feet. This collision occurred all the way up at 37,000 feet.
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Before gyrostabilizer systems were attached to guns, tanks typically had to stop completely in order to fire. This made them sitting ducks on the battlefield.
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The SR-71 Blackbird has not flown for decades, but recent developments suggest that the iconic spy plane may just return to the skies in the future.
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From Morgan Freeman's SyberJet to Steven Spielberg's Gulfstream, these Hollywood private jets cost tens of millions of dollars.
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Bird strikes have been an ever-present danger to aviators since man first took powered flight, and this includes the possibility of hitting fighter aircraft.
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While they both bear the AH mission design series classification of attack helicopter, the AH-1 Cobra and AH-64 Apache are two very different weapons platforms.
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While nothing has been officially announced, China seems to be working on a massive aircraft carrier, significantly larger than America's biggest carrier.
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The iconic "walkie-talkie" SCR-300 backpack radio first went into service in 1943, thanks to the innovations developed by what would become Motorola.
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A lot can happen on a fishing trip, but even the hardiest fisherman probably never expects to bring up a drone. That, however, is exactly what happened here.
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As cheap combat drones down multimillion-dollar aircraft, are crewed choppers obsolete? Discover why military experts say their role is shifting.
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The USAF intends to phase out the MQ-9 Reaper drone and has no shortage of potential replacements, including this new offering from Swarm Aero.
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While the U.S. military constantly improves its aircraft like the F-35, the new electronics and sensors create more heat. Better cooling may be on the way.
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While the United States Navy owns a number of aircraft for various situations and scenarios, most aviators are trained using just a handful of those.
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