The idea of the helicopter dates back to the Renaissance—but the contraptions could not be built until the development of modern aerospace engineering during the interwar period. Few platforms in ...

Fifty years after its first flight, the AH-64 Apache remains the go-to attack helicopter for militaries around the world The Apache entered U.S. Army service in the mid-1980s as a wrecking ball. It ...

Military power used to be limited by distance, but that stopped being true when long-range strike aircraft entered the ...