Aerospace & Defense
Ask almost anyone and they'll tell you the B-1B went conventional in the 1990s. The real ending involved welding torches, severed wiring, a treaty...
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Ask almost anyone and they'll tell you the B-1B went conventional in the 1990s. The real ending involved welding torches, severed wiring, a treaty...
The Pentagon is retiring two bombers decades younger than the B-52 while rebuilding the old giant to fly for another generation. Behind that inversion...
Sixteen years of failure produced an interceptor that never left the ground. What its designer salvaged from that wreck became the backbone of China's...
Boeing is losing billions on fixed-price defense programs, but the warning was there decades ago. The Navy’s A-12 Avenger II collapsed after Washington tried...
The jet in the air-show photos is not Russia's cancelled stealth fighter. It is the stand-in for a fighter that was never built at...
Khrushchev had killed the capital ship for good, or so Soviet doctrine said. Then a submarine hunter began absorbing missions, one requirement at a...
China's H-20 stealth bomber has been talked about for roughly a decade. And yet, the stealth warplane has never flown in public.
On 18 March 1965, the Soviet Union sent Alexei Leonov outside Voskhod 2 for the first spacewalk in history. The mission became a Space...
Russia has spent three decades trying to replace the MiG-31 Foxhound. Five successors failed, and the 50-year-old interceptor still guards Russian airspace.
Two warplanes, sixty years apart, built on the same impossible promise: one airframe that could be both fighter and bomber. America escaped the trap...