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Northrop’s YF-23 Black Widow II lost the Advanced Tactical Fighter contest to the YF-22, and three decades later experts still say it was the...
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Northrop’s YF-23 Black Widow II lost the Advanced Tactical Fighter contest to the YF-22, and three decades later experts still say it was the...
The SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest air-breathing aircraft, Mach 3.32 officially and 3.56 unofficially, 62 years after its first flight. The Air Force...
The Navy signed a $5.1 billion contract in September to put USS Harry S. Truman through RCOH, the refueling and complex overhaul due every...
The Improved Kilo-II, Russia’s Project 636.3, displaces 3,950 tons submerged, makes 20 knots, stays out 45 days with a crew of 60, and carries...
France Libre, formerly PANG, is the 78,000-ton, 1,020-foot nuclear carrier meant to replace Charles de Gaulle, with EMALS catapults and 30 Rafale F5s.
The A-12 Avenger II, the “Flying Dorito,” was a McDonnell Douglas-General Dynamics flying wing meant to replace the A-6 Intruder from carrier decks with...
The Ruger GP100 arrived in 1985 as the Security-Six’s successor, built by investment casting with a triple-locking cylinder, and reloading manuals print loads marked...
The F-105 Thunderchief flew more than 20,000 sorties over Vietnam and 75 percent of the bombing sorties against the North, carrying up to 14,000...
The F-35 Will Soon Have the AIM-260 Missile: For all of the impressive capabilities of the Lockheed Martin “Skunk Works” F-35 Lightning II 5th...
Christian D. Orr revisits why the F-22 Raptor line, closed by Bob Gates in 2009 at 187 of 381 planned jets, will not restart:...