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Key Points and Summary – The second B-21 Raider has arrived at Edwards AFB as Northrop Grumman builds out a fleet the Air Force...
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Key Points and Summary – The second B-21 Raider has arrived at Edwards AFB as Northrop Grumman builds out a fleet the Air Force...
Key Points: This piece asks what the U.S. Air Force would look like if it had fielded 750 F-22 Raptors instead of fewer than...
Article Summary – The F-105 Thunderchief, or “Thud,” began life as a supersonic nuclear striker before becoming the U.S. Air Force’s primary fighter-bomber over...
Article Summary – The Lockheed XF-104 Starfighter emerged directly from Korean War combat lessons, after U.S. pilots found their F-86 Sabres outclassed by MiG-15s....
Article Summary – Though over 4,000 missiles were fired at the SR-71 Blackbird, the legendary spyplane was never shot down—and only one foreign jet...
Key Points – The advent of the B-21 Raider, touted as the world’s most advanced stealth bomber and a crucial command-and-control node, sparks debate...
Lockheed Martin’s super-secretive Skunk Works is actively working on a super-secretive aircraft, the SR-72 Darkstar. And despite going over budget by just a smidgen...
We talk about “beast mode” a lot here at 19FortyFive. The term describes a fighter jet packed to the gills with missiles and bombs...
The F/A-XX Drama: It is a peculiar feature of American defense politics that the most critical capabilities are often developed not in times of...
The B-52 Stratofortress has been a mainstay of the US Air Force since the early days of the Cold War when the enormous bomber...