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The US Space Force X-37B Spaceplane Is 29 Feet Long, Weighs 11,000 Pounds and Has a Payload Bay 7 Feet Long. Nobody Outside the Program Has Ever Been Told What Goes Inside It.
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (463+ words) The X-37B is 29 feet long, weighs 11,000 pounds and carries a 7-foot payload bay. The Space Force announces when it launches and when it lands, and nothing in between....
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, 19+ 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…...
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…...
NASA X-43A Flew at Mach 9.6 and 110,000 Feet — No Air-Breathing Aircraft Has Gone Faster in the 22 Years Since
6+ day, 23+ 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, 11+ 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....
$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....
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....
Blown Out of the Sky: Russia Is Losing Su-34 Fullback Fighter-Bombers Faster Than Novosibirsk Can Build Them. Moscow Keeps Flying Them Anyway.
3+ week, 2+ day ago (562+ words) Su-34 production at the Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association cannot keep pace with combat losses, and Russia has changed how it uses the aircraft rather than stop....
"It Was the Greatest Mistake We Ever Made": The US Air Force Wanted 132 B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers and Ended Up with Just 21
3+ week, 2+ day ago (744+ words) Killed on live television in 1992, the B-2 became a $2.13 billion bomber by division: a $44.7 billion invention spread across just 21 aircraft — roughly $90 billion and $4.3 billion apiece in 2026 money. Now, with Russia and China risen and the B-21 line running, America faces the…...
'All the Thrust in Christendom' Couldn't Get the F-111B to Fly from a US Navy Aircraft Carrier: That's OK, It Made the F-14 Tomcat
3+ week, 3+ day ago (798+ words) It was evident that the F-111B, unlike its Air Force sibling, was a pre-failed project. Had Congress forced the Navy to go forward with the program, the maritime branch would have been set back for years....