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The theory was sound: lose weight, gain speed and climb rate, force the missile's guidance to recalculate. So a crew tried it in 1968...
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The theory was sound: lose weight, gain speed and climb rate, force the missile's guidance to recalculate. So a crew tried it in 1968...
Returning from a SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance run past Denmark, Shul and Walter Watson were asked to give a group of cadets a fly-by. Haze...
A 15-foot fighter with no landing gear, built to live in a B-36. Two hours 19 minutes of flight. Cancelled in 1949. This is...
They were disappointed by seven miles an hour. The SR-71 Blackbird record has outlived the mission, the altitude mark, and the men who still...
The US Air Force had plans to start winding down the B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit bomber fleets. That seems on hold with upgrades...
The F-35 flew well in Operation Epic Fury, the Iran campaign that opened in March 2026, and Air Combat Command's Brig. Gen. Brian Laidlaw...
The SR-71 Blackbird managed roughly 2,000 nautical miles on internal fuel. With KC-135Q tankers positioned along the route, missions ran past 12,000. The fastest...
Lockheed built 64 F-117 Nighthawks — 5 development aircraft and 59 production F-117As — in a classified program costing about $6,560,000,000. The Air Force...
The F-22 Raptor was built to kill an enemy fighter before that fighter knew it was there, at roughly $143,000,000 an aircraft. At the...
The Air Force's stated goal is at least 1,000 Collaborative Combat Aircraft, a figure first announced in 2023 and reaffirmed the following year. Against...