Aerospace & Defense
From about 1982 the SR-71 Blackbird flew ‘Tomcat Chase’ sorties against Navy F-14s over the Pacific and ‘Eagle Bait’ against Air Force F-15s in...
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From about 1982 the SR-71 Blackbird flew ‘Tomcat Chase’ sorties against Navy F-14s over the Pacific and ‘Eagle Bait’ against Air Force F-15s in...
The four Ohio-class SSGNs, each converted to carry 154 Tomahawks and 66 SEALs, start leaving the fleet with USS Georgia in July 2027 and...
On July 12, 2026, north of Kauai, HMCS Corner Brook, a submarine Britain laid up in 1994 and transferred to Canada for a nominal...
The ‘Sea Raptor’ never existed. In 1990 the Navy priced its carrier-based F-22 derivative, the Naval Advanced Tactical Fighter, at $66.1 billion for 618...
The US Navy built the F-14 Tomcat and the AIM-54 Phoenix to kill Soviet bombers, fired three Phoenixes in anger and scored zero kills....
At 1:30 a.m. on January 17, 1991, USS Missouri, laid down in 1941, fired the first battleship Tomahawk of the war. Over five weeks...
On January 25, 1966, Lockheed test pilot Bill Weaver was cruising an SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3.18 and 79,000 feet with the center of...
At Mach 3.2 in air 70 below zero, the SR-71 Blackbird’s titanium skin averaged 620 degrees and its 107-foot fuselage grew three to four...
Northrop Grumman has broken ground on roughly 1 million square feet of new B-21 Raider production space at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale,...
Northrop Grumman and the Air Force are adding 1 million square feet and a new final assembly line to the B-21 Raider complex at...