Nickel grass the great airlift

Originally supplanting paratroops as a means of delivering soldiers precisely onto the battlefield, air assault became the standard for strategic planning in the Cold War. But as air threats have escalated, has peer-on-peer conflict made the tactic obsolete?

DEFENSE

Nearly 30 years after giving them up, the RAF is poised to reacquire air-dropped nuclear weapons

V-Force: Britain’s Nuclear Bombers

At the end of WWII the Japanese Imperial Army Air Force was conscripted into the Royal Air Force in Southeast Asia

At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare