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Eight months into the Iran War, with sailors aboard USS Abraham Lincoln running low on some food, the Pentagon has doubled hostile fire pay...
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Eight months into the Iran War, with sailors aboard USS Abraham Lincoln running low on some food, the Pentagon has doubled hostile fire pay...
The SR-71 Blackbird’s two Pratt & Whitney J58 engines produced 32,500 pounds of thrust each and pushed the jet to Mach 3.2, but no...
The F-35 Will Soon Have the AIM-260 Missile: For all of the impressive capabilities of the Lockheed Martin “Skunk Works” F-35 Lightning II 5th...
Christian D. Orr revisits why the F-22 Raptor line, closed by Bob Gates in 2009 at 187 of 381 planned jets, will not restart:...
In 1949 the Navy laid the keel of USS United States, a 65,000-ton supercarrier. Five days later Defense Secretary Louis Johnson canceled it in...
The F-14 Tomcat was designed around a Pratt & Whitney F-401 engine that was not ready in time, so Grumman used the TF-30 from...
Between 1992 and 1999, Boeing’s Phantom Works flew a tailless, alien-looking stealth demonstrator at Area 51: the Bird of Prey. It used landing gear...
The F-22 Raptor is the most expensive fighter the US has ever bought, and the reason is arithmetic. The Air Force planned 750 jets,...
In 1972 Grumman painted an F-14 Tomcat in Air Force markings and pitched it to replace the F-106 as North America’s bomber interceptor, with...
The F-35 vs. Gripen debate keeps coming back in Canada, and some suggest the Royal Canadian Air Force fly both. Retired Lieutenant-General Alain Pelletier,...