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Summary and Key Points: Expert Harrison Kass revisits the 2009 Nellis AFB exercise in which a U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler, the electronic-attack Super Hornet...
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Summary and Key Points: Expert Harrison Kass revisits the 2009 Nellis AFB exercise in which a U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler, the electronic-attack Super Hornet...
China’s H-20 program began in 2016, yet as of 2026 there is no confirmed test flight or deployment. The United States went from the...
Talk of reviving the SR-71 Blackbird, still the fastest air-breathing aircraft ever at an official Mach 3.32 and an unofficial 3.56, has grown into...
From about 1982 the SR-71 Blackbird flew ‘Tomcat Chase’ sorties against Navy F-14s over the Pacific and ‘Eagle Bait’ against Air Force F-15s in...
The F-22 Raptor was built to sweep MiG-29s and Su-27s from the skies over Europe; the Soviet Union died first, and the wars that...
The Shah took delivery of 225 F-4 Phantoms beginning in 1968; 166 were still on strength when Iraq invaded in 1980, and FlightGlobal counted...
The ‘Sea Raptor’ never existed. In 1990 the Navy priced its carrier-based F-22 derivative, the Naval Advanced Tactical Fighter, at $66.1 billion for 618...
The US Navy built the F-14 Tomcat and the AIM-54 Phoenix to kill Soviet bombers, fired three Phoenixes in anger and scored zero kills....
On July 28, 1976, SR-71 61-7958 set the absolute speed record that still stands, 2,193.2 mph, about Mach 3.3, while a second Blackbird set...
On January 25, 1966, Lockheed test pilot Bill Weaver was cruising an SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3.18 and 79,000 feet with the center of...