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Pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group stationed in Italy as part of the 15th Air Force, August 1944. National Archives

February 2, 2024

Masters of the Air: the real history behind the show’s black fighter pilots

Graham Cross, Manchester Metropolitan University

The unpleasant wartime reality for the Tuskegee Airmen was that, in addition to a determined enemy, they had to fight their own side for the right to serve.

Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen sit in a Danish F-16 fighter jet. Denmark is supplying Ukraine with 19 F-16s. EPA-EFE/Mads Claus Rasmussen

August 24, 2023

After months of negotiations Ukraine will be getting the F-16 warplanes it has been begging for – here’s why that’s important

Matthew Powell, University of Portsmouth

The first batch of US-built F-16 ‘Fighting Falcon’ warplanes should be ready for deployment early next year.

Give us fighter aircraft: Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, presents the speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, with a fighter pilot’s helmet. American Photo Archive/Alamy Stock Photo

February 21, 2023

Ukraine war: history shows why Zelensky’s mission to secure modern jet fighters is so crucial

Matthew Powell, University of Portsmouth

Air power has transformed warfare and may well prove crucial to the outcome of this conflict.

Commonwealth war cemetery at Ypres, Belgium. chrisdorney via Shutterstock

November 8, 2018

World War I: what we’ve learned from the ‘war to end all wars’

Jonathan Este, The Conversation

100 years after the end of World War I, some of its brutal lessons.

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