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Prior to the onsite of hostilities in Operation Desert Storm in 1991, quite a few pundits and prognosticators stated that, on-paper at least, the...
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Prior to the onsite of hostilities in Operation Desert Storm in 1991, quite a few pundits and prognosticators stated that, on-paper at least, the...
The Bell P-59 Airacomet made her maiden flight – in the XP-59A prototype iteration – on October 2, 1942, with chief test pilot Robert...
Design of the Gloster Meteor fell to George Carter, and actually began in 1940 when turbojet technology was still in its infancy, yet while Germany...
As a well-known and somewhat famous Cold War Soviet platform, the MiG-29 was likely designed and built in the 1970s as a counterpart to...
The MiG-17 Fresco made its maiden flight on January 14, 1950 – five months before the outbreak of the Korean War – and was...
As the saying goes, “Speed is life.” But then there’s also the saying, “Speed kills.” When it comes to military aviation, both of these...
Meet the Dassault Rafale – One of the most distinctive modern fighter jets, undoubtedly, is the Dassault Rafale. Featuring delta wings, and close-coupled canards,...
Pity the poor MiG-23 “Flogger” jet fighter. Built to replace the older – as in 1955 vintage – MiG-21 Fishbed, and intended to contend...
Conventional wisdom asserts that two U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat crews scored the platform’s first ever kill in 1981 when a pair of fighters from...
Like the J-10 Vigorous Dragon warplane, China’s Shenyang J-11 fighter often flies missions over the Taiwan Strait to bully Taipei. At the end of...