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How Many T-72 Tanks Have Been Destroyed in Ukraine? Back in the heady days of the Cold War, the Soviet-made T-72 was one of...
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How Many T-72 Tanks Have Been Destroyed in Ukraine? Back in the heady days of the Cold War, the Soviet-made T-72 was one of...
One Engine Change Helped Wpn World War II — The Rolls-Royce Merlin Turned a Mediocre P-51 Mustang Into a 440 MPH Bomber Escort That...
The F-14 Tomcat Shot Down 5 Enemy Aircraft and Never Lost a Single Jet in Air-to-Air Combat Thanks to the blockbuster Top Gun film...
The Pentagon Called the F-111 a Failure — It Flew 4,000 Vietnam Missions, Bombed Gaddafi’s Libya, and Outperformed the A-10 in Desert Storm As...
19FortyFive Photographed the A-7 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson In academia (as well as the culinary world of...
D-21B: The SR-71 Blackbird’s Little Brother Was a Mach 3 Spy Drone — It Made Its Maiden Flight on the Same Day as the...
The A6M Zero Entered Service in Imperial Year 2600 — The Name Became So Famous Allied Pilots Applied It to Every Japanese Fighter There...
The X-32 is one of the more intriguing “what if” stories from the first decade of the post-Cold War era. Designed in the 1990s...
The B-58 Hustler Hit Mach 2 and Set 19 Speed Records — The Air Force Retired It After 10 Years and Kept the B-52...
The SR-71 Blackbird Could Hit Mach 3, But Accidents Did Happen The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane—also referred to as the “Habu” in honor...