Welcome back to Fluctus for a feature on the meticulous and expensive maintenance process of the US Navy's Aircraft Carriers.

An F/A-18E makes an arrested landing on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. (MC3 Julia Brockman/Navy) The number of major accidents involving military aircraft ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of major accidents involving military aircraft spiked in 2024, internal Pentagon figures show, and a series of high-profile aviation mishaps with deaths and the loss of ...

When it comes time to refuel military aircraft, it's not as simple as taxiing to the local gas station and topping off the tank. Military vehicles don't run on gasoline, and even Humvees, for example, ...

Surface-to-air missiles invalidated speed and altitude as reliable survivability strategies faster than planners anticipated. Interceptor missions vanished as strategic threats shifted from bombers to ...