Naval ships and submarines all come with a designation that generally describes what they do and other key specifications.

Military aircraft, however, obey far more rigid vehicle designation rules. At first glance, these labels might be a jumble of letters and numbers on par with a car license plate –- vanity plates ...

The alphabet soup that is the military is most visible in the ships and aircraft that we see among America's armed forces. Some of these designations are fairly obvious. It's not hard to figure ...

The two aircraft by General Atomics and Anduril have been named YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A, respectively, marking the first use of the ‘Unmanned Fighter' designation by the USAF.

Boeing’s T-7A Red Hawk trainer jet will be the first aircraft to receive the new eSeries designator, Barrett said. “The eT-7 is just the first in our vision of a long line of e-planes and e ...

The U.S. Air Force plans to designate new jets designed using new “digital engineering” with a lowercase “e.”; The Air Force believes aircraft built the new way—like the brand-new ...

Yesterday, we covered the meanings of the military's aircraft designations. Compared to that, though, the ships of the US Navy feature a far more mystifying code, which we'll endeavor to explain here.

Raytheon Aircraft redesignated its Beechcraft Bonanza and Baron lines the Beechcraft Bonanza G36 and Beechcraft Baron G58, to reflect the newly upgraded Garmin G1000 integrated avionics package.

The U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff announced that the first two Collaborative Combat Aircraft will be designated YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A, making them the first assets to ever fall under the Unmanned ...