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Most rifle actions need tight-fitting parts to cycle cleanly. The AK-47s bolt carrier rattles around inside the receiver with room to spare, and that...
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Most rifle actions need tight-fitting parts to cycle cleanly. The AK-47s bolt carrier rattles around inside the receiver with room to spare, and that...
Al Winkles and his navigator scrambled from RAF Leuchars expecting a routine 30-minute intercept. Instead the two Tu-95s turned south, and the Phantom followed...
SR-71 Blackbird 61-7978 wore white bunny logos on its tails and the nickname "Rapid Rabbit," and in 1972 it used up every ounce of...
The SR-71 Blackbird managed roughly 2,000 nautical miles on internal fuel. With KC-135Q tankers positioned along the route, missions ran past 12,000. The fastest...
Across its life the SR-71 Blackbird program flew 53,490 hours over 17,300 sorties, including 11,675 hours above Mach 3 — a record of production...
The SR-71 Blackbird was outside Soviet territorial waters, but the interceptor knew where the turn was coming. Ed Yeilding assumed the MiG pilot had...
The SR-71 Blackbird did not dodge missiles so much as it made the intercept mathematically unaffordable, arriving and departing faster than the defense could...
Ordinary pressure hulls were steel. Project 661 (also known as the Papa-Class or the K-222 submarine) used titanium alloy, which meant the Soviet Union...
The Air Force never advertised. A board met at Beale roughly every six months to fill seats opening seven to nine months later, working...
Cadmium-plated steel tools embrittled titanium on contact, so Lockheed had to build new tools out of titanium for the SR-71 Blackbird. Parts washed in...