NORAD will conduct an air defense exercise in the Washington, D.C., region in the overnight hours on Wednesday.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command once again quickly launched fighter jets to intercept Russian planes after four were spotted over the waters near Alaska. In a statement, NORAD said that two Russian Tu-95 bombers and a pair of Su-35 fighter ...

Exercise Trishul, a large-scale wargame involving over 20,000 troops and extensive military assets including Rafale jets, BrahMos missiles, and Indian Navy warships, is underway in India's Western sec

Since the early 1940s, the United States has created some of the most capable fighter aircraft in the world. But the road to designing, creating and then selling something as technologically demanding as a fighter is not an easy one,

US Air Force fighter jets intercepted yet another aircraft in restricted airspace near President Trump’s New Jersey golf club on Sunday — the 11th dangerous incursion of the weekend. The small private aircraft were all directed away from the Trump ...

Stephen Smith is a managing editor for CBSNews.com based in New York. A Washington, D.C. native, Steve was previously an editorial producer for the Washington Post, and has also worked in Los Angeles, Boston and Tokyo. Fighter jets were scrambled to ...