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The YF-23 was built to fly faster than sound without afterburners and without giving up its stealth, and in the Advanced Tactical Fighter competition...
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The YF-23 was built to fly faster than sound without afterburners and without giving up its stealth, and in the Advanced Tactical Fighter competition...
Grumman pitched the ST-21 in the early 1990s as either a new-build jet or a remanufactured F-14, as the Navy looked for a way...
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,...
At roughly $140 million a jet, the Raptor was expensive to build and costly to keep ready. Cutting the buy far below the 750...
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...
Boeing designed the X-32 to be cheap to build and cheap to own. Its conventional and short-takeoff versions shared as much as possible, it...
The silhouette fits a push Isaacman has made since his second day on the job last December, when he told employees he wanted an...
Northrop and McDonnell Douglas built the YF-23 around one bet: never be seen. It had a diamond wing, two splayed V-tails, no thrust-vectoring nozzles,...