Aerospace & Defense
Northrop funded the F-20 Tigershark itself — more than $750,000,000 with no Pentagon research money. The aircraft out-turned the F-16 at 13.2 degrees per...
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Northrop funded the F-20 Tigershark itself — more than $750,000,000 with no Pentagon research money. The aircraft out-turned the F-16 at 13.2 degrees per...
The Pratt & Whitney TF30 began in 1958 as a proposal for a short-haul jet airliner. It ended up in the F-14 Tomcat because...
The Rafale entered service in 2001 and by any normal measure should be aging out. Instead it is in the middle of the largest...
The EA-18G Growler is a modified F/A-18F Super Hornet, and the airframe alone runs about $67,000,000. What makes it a Growler is bolted on...
Boeing paid for the YF-118G Bird of Prey out of its own pocket — roughly $67,000,000 — to prove that an all-aspect stealth aircraft...
On July 21, 1921, Brigadier General Billy Mitchell sank the captured German battleship Ostfriesland with bombs dropped from aircraft, and the age of the...
Glock's model numbers confuse people for good reason. The Glock 17 is named partly for Gaston Glock's seventeenth patent and partly for its 17-round...
The fastest air-breathing aircraft ever flown was twelve feet long, weighed about 3,300 pounds, carried nobody, and was designed to be thrown away. On...
Boeing's X-32 first flew in September 2000 and made 66 flights in four months, demonstrating in-flight refuelling, weapons bay operations and supersonic flight in...
The numbers from Desert Storm are the reason the F-117 changed how air forces think. It flew about 2 percent of the combat sorties...