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The Air Force did not retire the SR-71 because something better came along. Nothing better exists. On March 6, 1990, Lieutenant Colonel Ed Yielding...
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The Air Force did not retire the SR-71 because something better came along. Nothing better exists. On March 6, 1990, Lieutenant Colonel Ed Yielding...
The record for the highest absolute altitude still belongs to Fedotov and the MiG-25 Foxbat from the USSR.
At around 10:05pm on March 21, 1984, a Soviet nuclear attack submarine surfaced almost directly beneath an American supercarrier in the Sea of Japan....
When the Russian Tu-16’s wing contacted the sea at hundreds of miles per hour, the bomber was forced into a cartwheel, which caused disintegration...
USS Guitarro was still under construction when a civilian crew began flooding tanks in her after section. Half an hour later a second crew...
The SR-71 aircraft designed to outrun and out-photograph the Soviet Union had a problem: it had to be made of titanium, and the Soviets...
The F-22's combat radius is typically cited at 450 to 500 nautical miles. Guam sits roughly 1,500 nautical miles from Taiwan - about three...
The SR-71's propulsion was far more than two engines. At speeds above Mach 3, the movable inlet spike, bypass system and exhaust worked together,...
Six FV4007 Centurion tank prototypes arrived on the European continent for testing weeks after the Second World War ended. The tank entered service in...
As the most widely produced fighter plane of all time, the Bf 109’s odds were good that a goodly number still survive today, whether...