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The Air Force did not retire the SR-71 because something better came along. Nothing better exists. On March 6, 1990, Lieutenant Colonel Ed Yielding...
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The Air Force did not retire the SR-71 because something better came along. Nothing better exists. On March 6, 1990, Lieutenant Colonel Ed Yielding...
A Mirage 2000 aircraft went down over Volyn Oblast on July 22, 2025 during a combat mission. Ukraine attributed it to equipment failure, and...
The record for the highest absolute altitude still belongs to Fedotov and the MiG-25 Foxbat from the USSR.
As the British Royal Navy faces a real shipyard crisis and a shrinking submarine fleet, it is decommissioning its first retired nuclear-powered attack submarine,...
At around 10:05pm on March 21, 1984, a Soviet nuclear attack submarine surfaced almost directly beneath an American supercarrier in the Sea of Japan....
SR-71 Blackbird engineers found that spot-welded titanium parts made in summer were failing early in service, while parts welded in winter held up. Nothing...
USS Guitarro was still under construction when a civilian crew began flooding tanks in her after section. Half an hour later a second crew...
The SR-71 aircraft designed to outrun and out-photograph the Soviet Union had a problem: it had to be made of titanium, and the Soviets...
A carrier commissioned eight days after Japan surrendered launched a German ballistic missile from her flight deck, then flew F/A-18s against Saddam Hussein 44...
Seventy-five Project 641 submarines were built between 1957 and 1983, serving six navies on four continents. On October 27, 1962, one of them hosted...