Top 10: The fastest aircraft ever made ...

Some of the fastest fighter jets ever built date back decades, yet many still outrun modern designs on raw speed alone. This breakdown ranks the quickest fighters on record, explains why they were ...

A look at what made the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II so special.

Despite claims of Mach 2.54, pilots report that the fastest speeds achieved in practice are Mach 2.25–2.3 in brand-new ...

What is the fastest Boeing military jet? The question is somewhat broad and depends on what one includes. As yet, Boeing has not developed and brought into service a single original manned fighter jet ...

Military fighter jets are among the fastest aircraft in the history of aviation. But for some of these planes in the early 1990s, their incredible speed made them a target for enemy radar. One example ...

The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...