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The AH-64 Apache Helicopter Entered U.S. Army Service in the Mid-1980s, Purpose-Built to Destroy Soviet Tanks Pushing Through Central Europe. The Army Now Plans to Fly It Into the 2060s — Close to 80 Years of Service, About 70 of Them After the Soviet Union Stopped Existing.
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (439+ words) The AH-64E looks like the 1980s aircraft and is nothing like it underneath. The biggest change is that an Apache no longer has to find its own targets....
How US Navy Nuclear Submarines Stay Underwater for Months Without Surfacing
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (476+ words) A nuclear submarine makes its own air and its own drinking water. The only two things that force it back to the surface are the food it can carry and the people aboard....
A Laser Shot Costs a Few Dollars. The US Navy Estimates the First Real Shipboard Laser Program Would Cost About $1,000,000,000 Before a Single Destroyer Is Fitted With One.
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (730+ words) The Navy’s reasons for pursuing laser weaponry are obvious. Conventional air defense systems rely on expensive physical ammunition. For example, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer can carry roughly 90–96 missiles in its Vertical Launch System (VLS) cells. Once those missiles are depleted,…...
The US Navy Fixed a Price on Stealth Technology Nobody Had Invented Yet, and the A-12 Avenger II Never Flew. 35 Years Later Boeing Lost $4,900,000,000 in a Single Year on the Same Kind of Contract.
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (1238+ words) Lockheed refused to bid. Northrop refused to bid, and told the Navy its cost estimate was at least $2,000,000,000 short. The contract fixed a price of $4,840,000,000 on stealth coatings, composites and a radar that did not yet exist. The team that…...
The Saab 36 Mach 2 'Nuclear' Bomber Has a Message for the US Air Force and Russia
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (284+ words) The Saab 36 was a twin-engined delta meant to penetrate at high altitude and deliver a Swedish nuclear weapon. Its development cost could have approached Sweden's entire defence budget....
Lockheed YF-12A Traveling at Mach 3.2 and 75,000 Feet Fired a Missile That Hit a Target 500 Feet Right Above the Ground
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (679+ words) Long before today’s Pentagon debates about whether future aircraft may need to combine stealth with extreme speed to survive increasingly sophisticated air defense systems, Lockheed had already built the YF-12A, a Mach 3 interceptor derived from the CIA’s secret A-12 reconnaissance…...
NASA X-43A Flew at Mach 9.6 and 110,000 Feet — No Air-Breathing Aircraft Has Gone Faster in the 22 Years Since
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (661+ words) The X-43A weighed about 3,300 pounds, was dropped from a B-52 on a Pegasus booster, and was built to be used once and never recovered. The whole program cost $230,000,000....
'I Would Take That Aircraft to the Ship Tomorrow': The US Navy Test Pilot Who Flew Boeing's X-32 Stealth Fighter Says It Was the Highlight of His Career
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (824+ words) The X-32 had a 55-degree delta wing, 20,000 pounds of internal fuel and about 50,000 pounds of thrust. Test pilots said it handled like an F/A-18. It lost on vertical landings....
50 Years Ago Today a Russian Pilot Landed a Mach 2.83 MiG-25 Foxbat in Japan and Defected. The West Took Apart the Aircraft It Had Feared for a Decade and Shipped It Back in Crates.
1+ week, 1+ day ago (337+ words) On September 6, 1976, Senior Lieutenant Viktor Belenko flew a Mach 2.8 interceptor out of the Soviet Union. Western analysts finally got inside the aircraft that had driven a generation of American fighter design....
Like 'Time Travel': US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Pilot Recalls Flying So Fast He Landed at Beale AFB Almost Day Before Taking off From Kadena AB
1+ week, 1+ day ago (270+ words) SR-71 Blackbird pilot David Peters flew a pass through the Korean DMZ, refuelled over the Sea of Japan, crossed Kamchatka and the Aleutians, and landed at Beale in time for a drink 17 and a half hours before departure....