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Vice Adm. Richard Dunleavy publicly questioned whether the Navy needed the F-22 Sea Raptor at all, citing its weight, as Cold War defense budgets...
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Vice Adm. Richard Dunleavy publicly questioned whether the Navy needed the F-22 Sea Raptor at all, citing its weight, as Cold War defense budgets...
When we look at USS Nimitz’s vital stats, we see that she truly is a “super carrier,” worthy of being named for a super...
In 1946 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt became the site of the first planned carrier takeoffs and landings by a US jet-powered aircraft, the McDonnell...
Super Tomcat 21 was Grumman’s early-1990s bid to keep a long-range F-14 on the carrier after the A-12 collapsed. The Navy chose the Super...
In 1997, Iran inspected a Moldovan fleet of MiG-29 fighters, including 14 Fulcrum-Cs American officials described as nuclear-capable. Washington used Nunn-Lugar funds to buy...
Seventy-nine F-14 Tomcat jets arrived under the Shah in 1974. After the revolution cut the supply line, Iran turned the fleet into a parts...
By the mid-1980s only a few dozen of the Shah's 225 F-4 Phantoms could still get airborne. Each flight hour is estimated to have...
So, are any Iranian F-14 Tomcat fighters still around, or have they been completely wiped out by now? Depends who you ask.
A fleet of Russian-build Su-35 Flanker fighters could make the United States work harder and force the acceptance of somewhat greater risk — but...
Iran unveiled the Qaher-313 as a stealth fighter in 2013, but no manned flight was confirmed before the design returned as a naval drone.