Aerospace & Defense
Twenty-nine years ago today, on September 25, 1997, Sukhoi's Su-47 Berkut made its first flight with wings swept forward instead of back. Carbon composites...
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Twenty-nine years ago today, on September 25, 1997, Sukhoi's Su-47 Berkut made its first flight with wings swept forward instead of back. Carbon composites...
Russia's 'new' Admiral Nakhimov Kirov-class might not work as expected in the age of drones and missile swarms.
In May 1942 the skipper of USS Skipjack watched a Mark 14 pass under a Japanese ship. US Navy Rear Adm. Charles Lockwood’s net...
USS Parche, a Sturgeon-class submarine commissioned in 1974, earned nine Presidential Unit Citations in 30 years and is widely considered the most decorated submarine...
In 1974 the Hughes Glomar Explorer told the world it was mining manganese nodules. The CIA had built the ship to lift the sunken...
During the last Red Flag to fly an Avro Vulcan, in 1982, a crashing F-16 released hydrazine at Nellis. The RAF crew was ordered...
The ejection is what saved the F-106 aircraft. With Gary Foust gone from the cockpit, the balance changed, the spin stopped, and the jet...
George C. Marshall put Dwight D. Eisenhower in War Plans in 1941. Ike then ran Operation Torch, Sicily, and Italy before commanding Operation Overlord...
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...
The F-14 'Super' Tomcat would have had increased range thanks to new engines. And yet, no stealth and high cost ended that dream.