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The B-2: Ten major upgrades in the late 2010s multiplied its onboard processing power 1,000 times, rebuilt its Defensive Management System with automated route...
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The B-2: Ten major upgrades in the late 2010s multiplied its onboard processing power 1,000 times, rebuilt its Defensive Management System with automated route...
Kelly Johnson’s YF-12A took the A-12 Oxcart airframe, added a second crewman, the Hughes AN/ASG-18 pulse-Doppler radar and bays for AIM-47A Falcon missiles, and...
Northrop Grumman and the Air Force are adding 1 million square feet and a new final assembly line to the B-21 Raider complex at...
The external stations were mechanically disabled under START so the aircraft could be verified as non-nuclear. BEAST — B-1 Embracing Agile Scheduling — brings...
The 74-year-old Stratofortress is on its 13th distinct upgrade. Its 9,000-mile combat range and 70,000-pound bomb load gain from the F130 swap, which rolls...
Designed in 1941 to strike Europe from the Western Hemisphere if Britain fell, the B-36 was saved by Gen. Hap Arnold the day Hiroshima...
The B-52 was flying an airborne alert route under Operation Chrome Dome, Strategic Air Command's program to keep nuclear-armed bombers in the air at...
The Air Force canceled production of the B-70 bomber in 1961, three years before the XB-70 Valkyrie prototype ever flew. That sounds like a...
During the last Red Flag to fly an Avro Vulcan, in 1982, a crashing F-16 released hydrazine at Nellis. The RAF crew was ordered...
The B-2 Spirit of Kansas, 89-0127, crashed at Andersen on February 23, 2008, after three wet sensors skewed air data. It rotated near 132...