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Lockheed Martin unveiled plans for the SR-72, nicknamed the Son of Blackbird, in 2013: a reusable hypersonic aircraft meant to reach Mach 6, about...
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Lockheed Martin unveiled plans for the SR-72, nicknamed the Son of Blackbird, in 2013: a reusable hypersonic aircraft meant to reach Mach 6, about...
Former SR-71 pilot Brian Shul told the story in Sled Driver: a January mission out of RAF Mildenhall with RSO Walt Watson, bound north...
On March 21, 1968, an SR-71 Blackbird flew its first operational mission over North Vietnam at 78,000 feet and Mach 3.17. The threat came...
The F-14 Tomcat of Top Gun fame once made one of the most dangerous carrier landings imaginable. Aviation Geek Club recounts Captain John ‘Hawk’...
Northrop Grumman broke ground on a one-million-square-foot final assembly line for the B-21 Raider at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, backed by $4.5...
After the collapse of the Future Combat Air System, France is pursuing a sixth-generation fighter on its own, with Dassault Aviation leading the Avion...
Not every F-22 Raptor is available at any moment, so the number free for a contingency is substantially smaller than the inventory, and a...
The F-22 Raptor is one of the most capable fighters ever built, but its combat radius is only about 529 miles. Built for Europe,...
Northrop’s YF-23 Black Widow II lost the Advanced Tactical Fighter contest to the YF-22, and three decades later experts still say it was the...
The Cold War had its races, and one played out 60 nautical miles north of Scotland in 1976. During NATO’s Teamwork exercise an F-14A...