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In 2010 a new British government went looking for savings and turned to the two aircraft carriers it had inherited. When the accountants finished,...
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In 2010 a new British government went looking for savings and turned to the two aircraft carriers it had inherited. When the accountants finished,...
Russia sends the Su-35 to war more than any other modern fighter, and four years over Ukraine have produced a strange ledger: at least...
For fifteen years, China's premier stealth fighter flew on engines that could not deliver the speed its airframe was shaped for. Now Chengdu is...
In 1967, Pete Knight flew Mach 6.72 and was called the fastest man alive. For thirty years, the Space Shuttle made that number look...
On October 3, 1967, Pete Knight landed the X-15 having flown faster than any pilot before or since — Mach 6.72. Then he climbed...
America's next bomber enters July 2026 ahead of its own schedule, built by a contractor losing money on every early airframe, and wanted in...
The U-2 was sold to Eisenhower as invisible to Soviet radar. The invisibility lasted exactly zero missions. What Kelly Johnson built to replace it...
The Air Force is attempting something no service has tried: rebuilding bombers whose newest airframe was delivered in 1962 to fly into the 2050s,...
The Russian pilot never left his own airspace, never saw his target, never even maneuvered. He fired a Mach 6 missile at a Ukrainian...
The WS-20 turbofan ended China's dependence on Russian engines — and Y-20B production is now outpacing both the U.S. and Russia on heavy transports.