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No Soviet aircraft frightened Western planners like the MiG-25 Foxbat. On paper it was capable of Mach 3.2, powered by two Tumansky R-15B-300 afterburning...
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No Soviet aircraft frightened Western planners like the MiG-25 Foxbat. On paper it was capable of Mach 3.2, powered by two Tumansky R-15B-300 afterburning...
The record for the highest absolute altitude still belongs to Fedotov and the MiG-25 Foxbat from the USSR.
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...
After ejecting from a burning A-4 Skyhawk at more than 500 knots, Ken VanderHorst was left with burns and serious flailing injuries. He recovered...
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...
No missile ever touched it. No fighter ever caught it. And still a third of the fleet was destroyed — by the only force...
Sixteen years of failure produced an interceptor that never left the ground. What its designer salvaged from that wreck became the backbone of China's...
Boeing is losing billions on fixed-price defense programs, but the warning was there decades ago. The Navy’s A-12 Avenger II collapsed after Washington tried...
In February 1970, a supersonic Air Force interceptor fell out of control over Montana and its pilot ejected to save his life. The jet...
In December 1958, the U.S. Navy chose the F-4 Phantom over a Vought fighter that was faster, lighter, and cheaper — the better airplane,...