The United States Navy maintains a fleet of aircraft that are unofficially called "Doomsday Planes." These are vital to national defense, and they serve an important strategic purpose. The current ...

In the sense of the Doomsday clock, it means how close we are to catastrophe.

The U.S. Navy awarded Northrop Grumman $3.5 billion to build E-130J "Doomsday Planes" for use in a nuclear war. The new planes will replace the nation's current fleet of E-6B Mercury aircraft ...

A passenger plane and a military helicopter collided close to Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night. American Airlines Flight 5342 was approaching a runway at the airport to land shortly ...

There were eight minutes to prevent one of the worst air disasters in US history that saw a US Army helicopter collide with an American Airlines plane carrying 64 people and splitting it in half. An ...

That's a rather drawn-out way to say Northrop Grumman will build the Navy's new "Doomsday Plane." Under this contract, Northrop will modify up to six Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 cargo planes to the ...

The end of (one) year and start of another can be an exciting time. For kids, it means Christmas, with presents under the tree. For adults, New Year's Eve parties and bottles of champagne.