As the once-unstoppable German Wehrmacht was reaching the limits of its power by 1944, it struggled to contain a ferocious ...

From there, his kill tally rose in twos and threes. On July 5, 1944, he stood atop the victory list in Europe with 28 kills, ...

Late in the war the Luftwaffe’s revolutionary Messerschmitt Me 262 met the Allies’ pinnacle propeller fighter, the P-51D Mustang, in the skies over Germany. Luftwaffe pilots recalled the encounters as ...

Kept under a veil of civilian airlines, glider clubs, and civil aviation clubs, the Luftwaffe emerged as a military force while the rest of Europe slept, and the He 51 was the backbone fighter of the ...

In the Army's latest fighter, James Howard saw B-17s getting wrecked by the Luftwaffe. Without hesitation, he flew straight at them.

Seen modelled by a BAE Systems test pilot, the Striker II will now be flown by the RAF and Luftwaffe Eurofighter pilots. (BAE Systems) The Luftwaffe is to join the UK Royal Air Force (RAF) in fielding ...

Relatives of the man in charge of protecting south-east England during the Battle of Britain have led a memorial service to mark its 85th anniversary. Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park took charge of ...

The Defiant’s real-world combat performance can be summed up in a ten-word nutshell: great against enemy bombers, not so great against enemy fighters. In other words, it was more of an interceptor ...

Germany has conducted its first firing of MBDA’s Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile from one of its Eurofighter combat aircraft. Announcing the development on 6 December, the German air ...

Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, and the fraying of America’s security guarantee, have strengthened the case for bolstering ...

The German Luftwaffe said its jets had initially followed the Russian plane before handing off monitoring to the fighters from NATO ally Sweden, and then returning to Rostock-Laage airfield in ...