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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, 11+ 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....
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, 19+ 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 Saab 36 Mach 2 'Nuclear' Bomber Has a Message for the US Air Force and Russia
6+ day, 13+ 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, 19+ 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…...
'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, 10+ 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, 22+ hour 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....
$350,000,000 F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Is the Best Dogfighter on Earth. The Dassault Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon and EA-18G Growler All Have Taken Turns 'Shooting It Down"
2+ week, 2+ day ago (628+ words) A French Rafale in 2009, a German Typhoon in 2012, and a Navy EA-18G Growler at Nellis all reached positions from which they could have killed America's best fighter, the F-22 Raptor....
Russia Has Taken Delivery of Up to 48 Su-35S Fighters Since 2022 and Lost Roughly 7 Thanks to the Ukraine War
2+ week, 6+ day ago (936+ words) Rostec has announced sixteen separate deliveries of Su-35S fighters since 2022, each consisting of two or three aircraft. That puts Russian receipts somewhere between 32 and 48 airframes over the same period in which Ukraine has claimed a far smaller number of shootdowns....
The US Air Force Planned to Buy 750 F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighters. It Built 187. It Has 184 Left and No More Can Be Built Ever Again
2+ week, 6+ day ago (888+ words) The 1986 plan called for 750 Raptors. Production stopped at 187, and today's inventory stands at 184 - with Congress moving to lock that number in place until 2032....
The US Air Force Lost Nearly 10 Percent of Its 'Irreplaceable' B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Force and No More Can Be Built
3+ week, 2+ day ago (128+ words) The real story of the two losses: each one permanently shrank a national capability, because nothing on Earth can replace a B-2 except its successor....