Brandon Weichert

The F-111B was supposed to be the Navy's long-range fleet defender. Shifting Cold War priorities and unhappy aviators killed it in 1968, and everything that worked about it was reborn in the F-14 Tomcat.

In 1944, before night vision or GPS, the Northrop P-61 Black Widow hunted enemy bombers in total darkness. It was the first American combat aircraft designed from the outset as a true night fighter, built around its SCR-720 radar rather than having one bolted on later. A three-man crew flew it, and the radar operator behind the pilot guided the giant fighter onto targets no one could see, an ancestor of the F-14 Tomcat that came decades later.

One analyst warns Trump has lost the plot on Iran — America's oil reserve is draining fast, and massive pump-price spikes may be weeks away.

One analyst's blunt verdict: there's no U.S. victory in the Iran war — only pain — and the way out is letting Tehran have its side of Hormuz.

The secret reason gas prices haven't exploded: China is quietly draining its oil reserve — and when it runs low, everyone pays fast.

The first Komet flew in 1941 and shattered every speed record of its age, exceeding 620 mph before the jet engine even existed. For about seven minutes the Messerschmitt Me 163 outflew anything the Allies had. Then its fuel ran out and it became a glider, easy prey for waiting Mustangs, and its two propellants were so reactive that a minor crash could dissolve the pilot. Revolutionary on paper, it downed just nine aircraft.

Brandon Weichert There's a new sheriff in town. At least that's what Tehran is signaling to the world about the Strait of Hormuz (SoH). The

A panelist citing Pentagon sources says Marines may storm Kharg Island within the week — Trump's Plan C in a war where every bet has failed.

The United States is committed to its sixth-generation warplane, the Boeing F-47, and recent photos over Area 51 show what many believe to be the jet. What surprised everyone was how different it looked. Analysts expected a tailless “flying arrowhead.” Instead the aircraft has canards, swept rear wings, and echoes of Boeing's old X-36 demonstrators, a design that suggests the Air Force has decided stealth is no longer the only priority.

Nazi Germany's Horten Ho 229 was the world's first flying-wing jet aircraft, and its triangular shape looks uncannily like a modern stealth plane. That resemblance has fueled decades of claims that it was the first stealth aircraft, and that it inspired the B-2. The Ho 229 was genuinely decades ahead of its time. But the stealth claims, and the B-2 connection, don't survive a close look at the evidence.