The first ever fighter jet, the Nazi Me 262, was, compared to today's jets, very small at 34 feet, 9 inches long. The later Soviet MiG-15 was puny too at 33 feet, 3 inches long.

Glass beads cover a Soviet-era fighter at “The MiG-21 Project,” on view through Jan. 26, 2026 at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. (Museum of Flight) ...

Rumors of a "kill switch" dented foreign faith in the aircraft. Its wartime capabilities, shown in Israel's June attacks on ...

More than five years and nearly $80 billion after the world's most expensive fighter jets joined the U.S. military fleet, the high-tech F-22 Raptor has yet to see combat -- despite the U.S. Air ...

A Myanmar military fighter jet crashed in a combat zone in the country’s east, according to an anti-military resistance organization that claimed to have shot it down. State-run media reported ...

India’s air power received a major boost as the Indian Air Force (IAF) welcomed the first batch of three American-made Apache ...