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In October 1997 the United States bought Moldova’s entire MiG-29 fleet, 21 Fulcrums including 14 MiG-29Cs US officials described as wired for nuclear delivery,...
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In October 1997 the United States bought Moldova’s entire MiG-29 fleet, 21 Fulcrums including 14 MiG-29Cs US officials described as wired for nuclear delivery,...
The ‘Sea Raptor’ never existed. In 1990 the Navy priced its carrier-based F-22 derivative, the Naval Advanced Tactical Fighter, at $66.1 billion for 618...
Pitched to Congress in 1972 as a $20-million-a-flight space truck, the Space Shuttle flew 135 missions over 30 years at about $1.5 billion each,...
The US Army spent roughly $6.9 billion on the RAH-66 Comanche and finished two flying prototypes, $3.45 billion each by the bluntest math, before...
At Mach 3.2 in air 70 below zero, the SR-71 Blackbird’s titanium skin averaged 620 degrees and its 107-foot fuselage grew three to four...
A B-52 carried him to 45,000 feet and let go. Sixty seconds of rocket burn emptied 15,400 pounds from the drop tanks, Knight jettisoned...
NASA’s 12-foot, 3,300-pound X-43A dropped from a B-52, rode a Pegasus booster, lit a scramjet, and hit Mach 9.64 at 110,000 feet on November...
In 1984, SR-71 tail 61-7974 suffered a violent unstart at 83,000 feet and Mach 3 near the Kola Peninsula. The pilot shut down the...
SR-71 pilot David Peters took off from Kadena at 10 a.m. Saturday, swept the Korean DMZ and Kamchatka, tanked twice, and sat down at...
Its cavities may be packed with sand and water, its engines have sat for 30-plus years, and the spare parts were disposed of in...