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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...
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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...
Before Lockheed drew the SR-71, Soviet designer Pavel Tsybin was already sketching a Mach 3 spy plane. His RSR, for jet strategic reconnaissance, began...
Kelly Johnson’s YF-12A took the A-12 Oxcart airframe, added a second crewman, the Hughes AN/ASG-18 pulse-Doppler radar and bays for AIM-47A Falcon missiles, and...
General Dynamics stretched an F-16 by 56 inches, replaced its wing and tail with a cranked-arrow delta of graphite composites 600 pounds lighter, and...
The F-35 reportedly posted a 20-to-1 kill ratio at Red Flag 2017, killing aggressors before they knew they were targets. But F-16 pilots found...
Shell built JP-7 for the SR-71 with a 140-degree flash point so 80,000 pounds of it could sit in uninsulated tanks at Mach 3.2...
The F-15EX Eagle II flies Mach 2.5, faster than the Mach 1.6 F-35 and Mach 2.25 F-22, carries 12 missiles, and runs a processor...
A B-2 Spirit carried an LRASM from Whiteman to Guam and, on June 27, 2026, fired it from inside its bomb bay at USS...
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...
The Air Force will hold an October 20–21 industry day at Wright-Patterson for the F-16 Next-Generation Mission Computer, replacing the Modular Mission Computer on...