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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, 16+ 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....
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.
5+ day, 32+ min 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, 18+ 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
1+ week, 1+ 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, 4+ 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, 16+ 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....
A Russian MiG-25 Foxbat Could Hit Could Hit Mach 2.83 and Broke the Record at 123,523 Feet in the Sky
1+ week, 6+ day ago (499+ words) On August 31st, 1977, a Soviet MiG-25 Foxbat made aviation history after it climbed to a record-breaking absolute altitude of 123,523 feet. The record still stands...
$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, 3+ 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....