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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...
The Block III stretched the Super Hornet's life from 6,000 to 10,000 hours, added 3,500 pounds of fuel in conformal tanks, a 10x19-inch touchscreen...
The AWG-9 could track targets beyond 100 miles and the Tomcat carried six Phoenix missiles for six targets at Mach 2.34. The TF30 engines...
Drones like the MQ-25 Stingray still need a deck to launch from, missiles are expended rather than reused, and America-class amphibious ships fly F-35Bs...
'I used to have to fly the engines; now I fly the airplane,' one Tomcat pilot told museum docent Orrin Messinger, and a Grumman...
The original F-4 Phantom had no internal gun because missiles were expected to dominate air combat. Vietnam proved otherwise, and the F-4E's M61A1 Vulcan...
The F-14D added the AN/APG-71 radar, LANTIRN, JTIDS, IRST and four JDAMs. The last Tomcat combat mission launched from USS Theodore Roosevelt on February...
Glock went to CCI/Speer in 2003 and asked for .45 ACP ballistics in a case short enough to fit a 9mm frame. An engineering...
A 3.78-inch barrel, 6.97 inches overall, a slide exactly one inch across, and 26.81 ounces loaded — seven rounds of .45 ACP in a...
A ground war in Iran would be a mistake, argues Dr. Robert Kelly. Holding a country the size of Alaska with 90 million people...
Retired SR-71 pilot Maury Rosenberg told Aviation Geek Club the colonel asked whether any Air Force regulation banned approaches at Sacramento, then ordered one...