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Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...
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Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...
The new F/A-XX will be an expensive platform that cannot live up to its promise simply because the tyranny of distance is so great...
In February 1964 the White House announced a new interceptor called the A-11 so anyone spotting the sleek black jets would think fighter, not...
Finnish and Swedish fighters intercepted at least two MiG-31s this month in their first joint QRA mission, days after Finland took its first two...
The titanium tooling had been destroyed, so a new SR-71 Blackbird was impossible. At Edwards, 16 test flights chased a phantom four-degree yaw until...
Kelly Johnson's idea was to turn the CIA's A-12 into a missile truck that could sit above 80,000 feet at three times the speed...
The right SR-71 afterburner attachment section blew out on a low pass over the runway, driving flame into the nacelle and peeling titanium off...
The Navy had just lost the A-12 Avenger II and had nothing to replace the aging A-6 Intruder, so Lockheed pitched the F-117 stealth...
A Cessna got 90 knots. A Beechcraft got 125. Then an F/A-18 out of NAS Lemoore came on the frequency and got 620, which...
The B-52 was flying an airborne alert route under Operation Chrome Dome, Strategic Air Command's program to keep nuclear-armed bombers in the air at...