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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...
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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...
The YF-23's diamond wing, V-tails, S-duct intakes, and flat exhausts made it stealthier, and in testing it posted a higher top speed, faster supercruise,...
On paper it was a mismatch. The F-22 brings stealth, supercruise, thrust vectoring, AESA radar, and sensor fusion built for first-look, first-shot, first-kill fights....
On May 15, 1972, Maj. Tom Pugh and Maj. Ronnie Rice were flying the SR-71 known as "Rapid Rabbit" at Mach 3.2 when both...
The SR-71 was built to leak. Kelly Johnson's engineers knew the airframe would grow as friction heated it at Mach 3, so they fitted...
NASA built three X-43As under its Hyper-X program for about $230 million, and none was meant to be recovered. A B-52 carried each one...
The DF-26 alone could force U.S. carriers to operate thousands of miles offshore, where a carrier air wing can't strike without non-stealthy aerial refuelers...
USS Nimitz was commissioned in May 1975 after seven years and almost $2 billion, and her design shaped nine more carriers through 2009. She...
The F-35 dumps heat from its avionics, subsystems, and engine into its own fuel, which works as a giant heat sink. Early test jets...
USS Nimitz flash-boils seawater in four distilling units and can make about 400,000 gallons of fresh water a day, roughly 80 gallons for each...