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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...
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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...
USAF pilot John Rains flew an F-4C to RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall in 1968 for what he had been told was a static...
US Air Force requirements called for Mach 3 performance, a combat radius near 1,000 nautical miles on internal fuel and an operational ceiling above...
The SR-71 set a 2,193.167 mph record, gathered intelligence above 80,000 feet and was retired over cost and changing priorities.
The strange aircraft hanging above an F-22 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force was never an operational fighter. The $67 million...
The F-16XL doubled payload, extended range and lost to the F-15E before NASA used two prototypes for decades of supersonic research.
Northrop built two YA-9A prototypes for the Air Force's A-X competition. Between them they flew 123 times, totaling 307.6 flight hours, before the service...
Canberra's original plan called for a hundred jets. It settled at seventy-two, extended the life of its Super Hornets and moved the money into...
The US Air Force XB-70 bomber cost up to $2 billion, reached Mach 3.08 and was built for a 50,000-pound payload before missiles erased...
F-22 Raptors and MC-130J Commando IIs practiced hot-pit refueling at Kadena Air Base in Japan, transferring fuel from the tanker to a fighter with...