Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The Air Force Almost Bought the F-14 Tomcat. Grumman Built One in ADCOM Colors. It Never Happened. In recent weeks, U.S. and Israeli strikes...
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The Air Force Almost Bought the F-14 Tomcat. Grumman Built One in ADCOM Colors. It Never Happened. In recent weeks, U.S. and Israeli strikes...
One Iranian Drone Strike at a Saudi Arabian Base Damaged 5 KC-135 Tankers — 8 Have Been Damaged or Destroyed Since the Iran War...
The B-52 Was Vulnerable at High Altitude and Soviet SAMs Were Improving — The Air Force Needed a Bomber That Could Fly Fast and...
The A-10 Is the Only Aircraft in History Designed Around Its Gun — A 30mm GAU-8 Avenger Gatling That Fires 3,900 Rounds Per Minute...
An F-15E Strike Eagle Crashed Inside Iran, and an A-10 Warthog Was Critically Damaged — Both Hit by Ground Fire on the Same Day...
The SR-71 Blackbird Grew Out of the CIA’s A-12 Oxcart Program — And Immediately Competed With CORONA Reconnaissance Satellites for Funding At 19FortyFive, part...
The X-32 is one of the more intriguing “what if” stories from the first decade of the post-Cold War era. Designed in the 1990s...
Northrop’s Tacit Blue Program And “The Whale” Stealth Plane History Has Forgotten About That We Got Up Close To The Tacit Blue program was...
The Iran War Proves the B-52 Bomber Isn’t Obsolete Yet You know things are going well in an air war when the B-52 Stratofortress...
The B-58 Hustler Hit Mach 2 and Set 19 Speed Records — The Air Force Retired It After 10 Years and Kept the B-52...