The US Air Force has awarded Danish defense company Terma a $9 million contract to supply its 3D audio system for F-16 ...

As a space buff, I knew the KC-135 was used to train astronauts for weightlessness. But its main mission is USAF aircraft ...

Military pilots fighting an enemy need to engage in complex maneuvers that take precious seconds or minutes of their time and attention. Advanced touch screens or voice commands allow them to perform ...

This is further enhanced by the F-16’s helmet-mounted sight (HMS), allowing pilots to lock onto targets simply by looking in ...

At the end of the Cold War, the U.S. secretly acquired 21 MiG-29 warplanes from Moldova to prevent their potential sale to Iran, fearing that the nuclear-capable MiG-29C variant might end up ...

Military & Defense 2024-10-04T11:17:01Z Ukrainian F-16 fighter pilots have had to dramatically ... a branded flight helmet, a cockpit cup holder, and six months of free hangar space.

What if the pilot was less experienced? What if some of those problems, such as the helmet, could be fixed? What were the exact trials the planes were flying under? The criticisms of the F-35 have ...

This agility, coupled with advanced helmet-mounted cueing systems that allow pilots to engage targets by simply looking at them, gives the F-16 a distinct advantage in close combat. AIM-9X Sidewinder ...

Theoretically, the more combs a helmet had, the stronger it was, so later helmets came equipped with eight, 12, or 16 combs ... World War II pilots used oxygen breathing systems in high-altitude ...

In an infamous incident in 1960, pilot Gary Powers ... in the back of six separate fighter jets, including the F-15, F-16 and F-18, pulling as many as 9 G's, but never have I undergone the ...

The F-35 is more modern and categorized as a fifth generation fighter, while the Typhoon falls into the fourth generation category, similar to the F-16 ... F-35 pilots wear a specialized helmet ...

This time, Secord, who was now also employed as a commercial airline pilot ... a helmet.” Playing defense without a helmet could sometimes be dangerous, as Wilson found out in his 16-year ...