Airlift platforms might not get a lot of recognition, but they play an important role in global US military operations.

Xinhua News Agency reports that the Chinese navy has had take off arrested landing tests of the J-15T, J-35 fighter jets and the KJ-600 early warning and

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As tensions between Washington and Beijing continue to escalate, the potentiality for a future kinetic conflict is growing. China has been rapidly expanding its naval prowess over the last decade and officially possesses a fleet larger than America’s.

Ask just about any Caravan pilot how it flies, and they will invariably describe the big Cessna as nothing more than an oversized 182. [Courtesy: Textron Aviation] Seven-thousand-pound diesel pickups. Ninety-eight-inch televisions in 8,000-square-foot homes.

When U. S. defense preparations began last summer, the aircraft industry jumped almost directly from swaddling clothes into ill-fitting long pants, quivered before the big bad wolf of mass production. Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen was patient.

Indonesia lacks the capability to build a modern aircraft carrier. It has therefore looked to buy one instead. As it happens, Italy has one to sell.