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The F-105 Thunderchief flew more than 20,000 sorties over Vietnam and 75 percent of the bombing sorties against the North, carrying up to 14,000...
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The F-105 Thunderchief flew more than 20,000 sorties over Vietnam and 75 percent of the bombing sorties against the North, carrying up to 14,000...
USS Boston (CA-69) and USS Canberra (CA-70) were Baltimore-class heavy cruisers, 673 feet and 17,000 tons with nine 8-inch guns, when the war ended....
For F-4 Phantom crews, the saying went that two ejections ended a flying career, not as punishment but because the G-forces of the seat...
The original F-4 Phantom had no internal gun because missiles were expected to dominate air combat. Vietnam proved otherwise, and the F-4E's M61A1 Vulcan...
Lockheed stripped the cameras out of a Blackbird, put a Hughes AN/ASG-18 fire control radar in the nose and three AIM-47 Falcons in internal...
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier sailed from San Diego on November 21, 2025 for a seven-month deployment and was extended twice. Her air...
Remington and Westinghouse built 3.3 million Mosins for the Tsar before the Bolsheviks refused to pay, and US troops carried them into Russia in...
Reactivating USS New Jersey alone was estimated at $247 million in 1982, about $857 million today. The battleships got AN/SPS-49 radars, SLQ-32 electronic warfare...
By 1968, North Vietnam had grown extremely proficient at defending its airspace against American warplanes, so the Navy turned to a platform Hanoi would...
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...