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Grumman pitched the ST-21 in the early 1990s as either a new-build jet or a remanufactured F-14, as the Navy looked for a way...
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Grumman pitched the ST-21 in the early 1990s as either a new-build jet or a remanufactured F-14, as the Navy looked for a way...
Mikoyan began work in 1983, as the Pentagon's Advanced Tactical Fighter program headed toward the YF-22 and YF-23. The Soviet Air Force wanted supercruise,...
Ocean Venture '81 ran from August 1 into October with ships and aircraft from 14 countries. In one phase, a force built around USS...
Long Beach was built to escort the Navy's new nuclear carriers, which conventional escorts couldn't keep pace with on long deployments. Two C1W reactors...
The TF30 wanted smooth, straight airflow, which it got on the F-111 but not on a fighter pulling hard turns at high angles of...
Rather than design new naval reactors, France adapted two K15 pressurized-water reactors from its ballistic-missile submarines. That saved money but left the 858-foot, 42,000-ton...
The Viking's goodbye took years. The fleet retired it in January 2009 in Jacksonville, but the VX-30 Bloodhounds at Point Mugu kept three flying...
Lockheed built the Orion from its Electra airliner after a 1957 Navy call to replace the P-2 Neptune, shortening the fuselage and adding a...
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...
Mikoyan designed the MiG 1.44 to take on America's Teen Series fighters and answer the F-22, and it chose agility over pure stealth. Big...