The Battle of Kursk was more than a tank clash—it was an air war of attrition. Soviet pilots, poorly trained but overwhelming in numbers, swarmed the skies. But German aces, flying superior machines, ...

The Luftwaffe Offensive From airfields in occupied France, Luftwaffe aircraft could reach Dover in just six minutes. Göring launched a massive air campaign involving 2,500 aircraft, including ...

Leonardo’s Miysis DIRCM will protect the Luftwaffe’s fleet of six KC-130J and C-130J-30 aircraft operated by the Franco-German Binational Air Transport C-130J Squadron (BATS). Leonardo has ...

According to the Smithsonian, Nazi Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring allocated half a million Reich Marks to brothers Reimar and Walter Horten to manufacture the aircraft.

Against them stood a force of about 2,000 Luftwaffe aircraft, flush with sweeping victories over every air force in Europe that had opposed them. For Hitler's Luftwaffe, the primary goal of the great ...

NATO countries will scramble jets "when there are signs of Russian military planes approaching allied airspace in unpredictable ways," the organization said.

In 1939, the German Luftwaffe was unquestionably the most advanced air force the world. The main formations assigned to the invasion of Poland, Luftlotte 1 and 4, counted 1,302 aircraft between them.

The German Air Force will base submarine-hunting planes at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland under the government's new Trinity House Agreement.

Whether the German Luftwaffe could have won the Battle of Britain in 1940 has been a matter of debate almost from the time the first shot was fired. Now, a team of mathematicians at the University ...