Fighter pilots use a variety of tools to avoid missiles. These include evasion maneuvers, radar jammers, flares and shrapnel ...

An onboard Radar Warning Receiver works to identify the source of a signal by displaying the azimuth, as additional info is ...

Over that, the pilot will have a flotation vest in case of a watery landing (read: crash), a harness with survival gear, and, of course, a helmet with communication equipment and oxygen.

During World War II, American fighter pilots relied on specialized uniforms, survival gear, and flight equipment to withstand the extreme conditions of aerial combat. But what exactly did they ...

Flt-Lt Sanni’s impressive records first made headlines in 2019 when she was decorated as the Nigerian Air Force’s (NAF) first female fighter pilot after completing her pilot training in the ...

Bodenheimer, who runs a podcast called Max Afterburner, guesses that in this case, the co-pilot might have by mistake retracted the flaps instead of the gear.

Nigeria's first female fighter pilot, Flight Lieutenant Kafayat Omolara Sanni, has emerged the Best Allied Student and winner of the Best Assistant Commandant Paper at the prestigious Ghana Armed ...

The Pakistani special forces officer who claimed the capture of Indian fighter pilot Abhinandan Varthaman during the 2019 Balakot airstrike has reportedly been killed by the Tehreek-i-Taliban ...

A decorated Windsor man who spent hundreds of hours flying a Spitfire in the WWII was posthumously celebrated by a Hamilton warplane museum.

PARIS (Reuters) -Sweden's Saab and German defence startup Helsing have conducted combat testing of a Gripen E warplane flown by AI against a real fighter pilot, they said on Wednesday, in a step ...

Iranian Air Defense announced Friday evening that it had downed two Israeli warplanes and captured the pilot of one of them.The Air Defense said in a statement that it had captured ...