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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....
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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...
NASA built three X-43As under its Hyper-X program for about $230 million, and none was meant to be recovered. A B-52 carried each one...
USS Nimitz was commissioned in May 1975 after seven years and almost $2 billion, and her design shaped nine more carriers through 2009. She...
The F-35 dumps heat from its avionics, subsystems, and engine into its own fuel, which works as a giant heat sink. Early test jets...
During sea trials of Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier HMS Prince of Wales, both shafts were tested over thousands of nautical miles, and their vibration...
USS Nimitz flash-boils seawater in four distilling units and can make about 400,000 gallons of fresh water a day, roughly 80 gallons for each...
Her overhaul was scheduled for 2016. Congestion at Norfolk pushed it back, so she made a few more patrols instead. In 2017 her diving...
German officers brought a two-hour ultimatum to the 327th Glider Infantry south of Bastogne. McAuliffe’s typed reply was “NUTS!” Col. Bud Harper told them...