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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...
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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...
He went up on instinct. Collins and his RSO Conrad Seagroves climbed past the known 85,000-foot ceiling and kept going — until only one...
A spacecraft weighing about 1,100 pounds, built for roughly $100 million in 1970s money, made three passes at Mercury in 1974 and 1975 and...
Six X-craft left Scotland on September 11, 1943, towed behind conventional submarines. One was lost with her crew on the way. One was scuttled...
From 1999 to 2019 the Secret Service carried it, in .357 SIG, with a DAK trigger that gave the same pull on every shot....
The SR-71 Blackbird's tires were silver because the rubber was laced with powdered aluminum, inflated with nitrogen to 415 psi, cost $2,300 each, and...
The arresting gear didn't hold. A VAQ-130 Growler rolled off aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower into the Atlantic, both aviators ejected, and the...
Lockheed's CL-1201 was a 5,375-ton flying aircraft carrier with a 1,120-foot wingspan, four nuclear-heated turbofans, 182 lift jets for takeoff, and the endurance to...
The external stations were mechanically disabled under START so the aircraft could be verified as non-nuclear. BEAST — B-1 Embracing Agile Scheduling — brings...
The gun that made sense at 35 may be wrong at 75. A retired Green Beret on why a 13.5-ounce snub revolver punishes arthritic...
The 74-year-old Stratofortress is on its 13th distinct upgrade. Its 9,000-mile combat range and 70,000-pound bomb load gain from the F130 swap, which rolls...