Aerospace & Defense
The kill chain ran through the rear cockpit: the Combat Tree interrogator, the radar lock, the Sparrow geometry — and the Air Force gave...
Hi, what are you looking for?
The kill chain ran through the rear cockpit: the Combat Tree interrogator, the radar lock, the Sparrow geometry — and the Air Force gave...
Commissioned in November 1961, Enterprise was built with eight Westinghouse A2W pressurized-water reactors arranged in four independent propulsion units, producing roughly 280,000 shaft horsepower...
By the mid-1980s only a few dozen of the Shah's 225 F-4 Phantoms could still get airborne. Each flight hour is estimated to have...
Aircraft carrier CVA-01's planned air group was 18 F-4 Phantoms, 18 Blackburn Buccaneers, four Gannet airborne early warning aircraft and five Sea King helicopters...
The F-4 Phantom set 16 world speed and altitude records between 1959 and 1962, which prompted the Vietnam veteran Dick Anderegg's line that it...
The F-5E Tiger II cost about $2.1 million when new, and Iran was the first foreign operator — the United States pulled the delivery...
Before the 1979 revolution, Iran received 225 American F-4 Phantoms. It used them heavily against Iraq, then kept survivors operational through depot repairs, cannibalization...
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,...
The F-4 Phantom was built to kill Soviet bombers at long range with missiles — so the Navy left off the gun. Then Vietnam...
A Navy F-4 Phantom crew was vectored to get a radar lock on the SR-71 Blackbird as it returned from a run near China....