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SR-71 Blackbird Pilot David Peters: ‘Very Few Missiles Could Make Up 36 or More Miles Per Minute’ The iconic SR-71 Blackbird was America’s spy...
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SR-71 Blackbird Pilot David Peters: ‘Very Few Missiles Could Make Up 36 or More Miles Per Minute’ The iconic SR-71 Blackbird was America’s spy...
The Spruance-Class Destroyer Was as Large as a WWII Cruiser — Congress Thought It Didn’t Look Scary Enough and Almost Killed the Program The...
The F-16 Was Designed as a Daytime Air Superiority Fighter — LANTIRN Targeting Pods and Precision Munitions Turned It Into an All-Weather Strike Platform...
19FortyFive Photographed the A-7 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson In academia (as well as the culinary world of...
D-21B: The SR-71 Blackbird’s Little Brother Was a Mach 3 Spy Drone — It Made Its Maiden Flight on the Same Day as the...
The VZ-9AV Avrocar Was a 26.5-Foot Flying Disk Powered by Three Continental J69-T9 Turbojets With 927 Pounds of Thrust Each The Avrocar program was...
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 MiG-29K Was Built for the Admiral Kuznetsov — Russia’s Only Aircraft Carrier Has Spent More Time in Port Than at Sea Built by...
The SR-71 Blackbird Could Hit Mach 3, But Accidents Did Happen The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane—also referred to as the “Habu” in honor...
The SR-71 Blackbird Was a Legend But Even Legends Can Suffer Mechanical Failures The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane (AKA the “Habu”) remains the...