The Mikoyan MiG-31 "Foxhound" is widely recognized as the world's fastest fighter jet still in operational use.

As terrible recent conflicts have shown, the fighter aircraft is far from dead and can prove vital for a nation’s survival. The most modern fighters can shoot down an enemy aircraft at a range of 100 ...

Speed is usually sold as the ultimate advantage in air combat, the quality that lets a fighter jet sprint through danger and vanish before an enemy can react. Yet the faster an aircraft moves, the ...

Most fighter jets have what is called a stall speed – the slowest the jet can go before it falls out of the sky. However, there are two fighter jets currently in service that can get around their ...

The days of fighter jets outrunning ground defenses are long since past, and new aerial innovations are focused on stealth and sensor technology. But raw speed still has a place. Supersonic flight, ...

Pilots sometimes need to operate at slow speeds—during tight turns and landings, for instance—and good low-speed handling is the hallmark of a great fighter jet. People tend to associate raw speed ...