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The F-22 Raptor is the most expensive fighter the US has ever bought, and the reason is arithmetic. The Air Force planned 750 jets,...
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The F-22 Raptor is the most expensive fighter the US has ever bought, and the reason is arithmetic. The Air Force planned 750 jets,...
In 1972 Grumman painted an F-14 Tomcat in Air Force markings and pitched it to replace the F-106 as North America’s bomber interceptor, with...
The F-35 vs. Gripen debate keeps coming back in Canada, and some suggest the Royal Canadian Air Force fly both. Retired Lieutenant-General Alain Pelletier,...
The Air Force retired the SR-71 Blackbird in January 1990, officially over cost. A new memoir by Colonel Richard “Butch” Sheffield, a retired Blackbird...
Before Lockheed drew the SR-71, Soviet designer Pavel Tsybin was already sketching a Mach 3 spy plane. His RSR, for jet strategic reconnaissance, began...
Kelly Johnson’s YF-12A took the A-12 Oxcart airframe, added a second crewman, the Hughes AN/ASG-18 pulse-Doppler radar and bays for AIM-47A Falcon missiles, and...
Lockheed once sketched a carrier-based Blackbird. The A-12CB would have left an aircraft carrier deck with Rocketdyne boosters borrowed from the F-104G zero-length-launch program,...
The F-22 Raptor was built to fight over Europe, and its 500-to-590-nautical-mile combat radius shows it. Against a Chinese arsenal that can range every...
The SR-71 Blackbird flew above 80,000 feet at Mach 3, high and fast enough that Soviet missiles and interceptors could not reach it. On...
Canada’s trade war with Washington has stalled its planned 88-jet F-35 buy. Ottawa is legally committed to 16 and has put down payments on...