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After the US Navy retired the F-14 in 2006, investigators found sensitive Tomcat components were still entering public surplus sales. Iran remained the only...
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After the US Navy retired the F-14 in 2006, investigators found sensitive Tomcat components were still entering public surplus sales. Iran remained the only...
Boeing built two jets to answer two different questions — one flew clean, and one never landed vertically at full weight. Here is the...
Northrop built exactly two YF-23 prototypes for the competition that produced the F-22, and both still exist. I've stood next to each, a month...
In February 1970, a supersonic Air Force interceptor fell out of control over Montana and its pilot ejected to save his life. The jet...
Canada's review of its F-35 purchase was supposed to be about which fighter to fly. It has become something bigger: whether to expand the...
Northrop Grumman's first B-2 design was cleaner than the bomber the world eventually saw. The deep sawtooth along its trailing edge wasn't the engineers'...
On September 6, 1976, a disillusioned Soviet lieutenant landed his MiG-25 at a civilian airport in Japan and handed the West its first look...
No combat jet in service flies faster than Russia's MiG-31. It carries the Kinzhal hypersonic missile, reaches into Ukrainian skies, and probes NATO's borders....
In 1997, the Pentagon bought 21 Soviet MiG-29 fighters out from under Iran and flew them to Ohio in pieces. The bargain was real,...
For years, Washington assumed that if it spent enough, the ships would appear. They haven't. America's naval industrial base needs 250,000 workers it doesn't...
In December 1958, the U.S. Navy chose the F-4 Phantom over a Vought fighter that was faster, lighter, and cheaper — the better airplane,...