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Summary and Key Points: The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was built to cruise at three times the speed of sound — so high and...
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Summary and Key Points: The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was built to cruise at three times the speed of sound — so high and...
Summary and Key Points: The SR-71 Blackbird flew the Cold War’s most dangerous reconnaissance missions — over the Soviet periphery, North Vietnam and North...
Summary and Key Points: A Hangzhou defense firm, Jingan Technology, says its “Jingqi” AI system intercepted radio signals from four B-2 Spirit bombers —...
The F-22 Raptor is considered by many to be one of the most advanced aircraft currently in service. Despite being built in the 1980s...
For years, analysts and even Air Force officials have argued that plans to procure 100 B-21 Raiders are insufficient, and that a fleet of...
General Dynamics built the F-16XL fighter prototype with 27 hardpoints. The standard F-16 has 9 hardpoints. The F-16XL had 120% more wing area than...
Canada committed in 2023 to buy 88 Lockheed Martin F-35A stealth fighters to replace its CF-18 fleet — today it has firmly committed to...
In a sign that the B-1B bomber may not be done just yet from the Air Force’s inventory, the service just added one to...
The F-14 Tomcat was retired far too soon—and now its maker may be on the verge of winning the biggest U.S. Navy fighter contract...
On November 15, 1967, Air Force Major Michael J. Adams was killed when the third X-15 broke apart at Mach 3.93 and 65,000 feet...