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$600,000,000 Mach 22 X-20 Dyna-Soar: Neil Armstrong Was Training to Fly a Spaceplane the Pentagon Cancelled
3+ week, 3+ day ago (854+ words) The X-20 Dyna-Soar didn't fail because the concept was wrong. It failed because it arrived sixty-three years before the US was ready to fly it without asking who was in the cockpit. And it offers a glimpse of what future wars…...
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...Defense Secretary Robert McNamara ultimately canceled the program as Vietnam War costs rose and Pentagon...
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, 18+ hour ago (1238+ words) that single decision is what turned an ambitious program into the largest contract termination in Pentagon...
The B-1B Lancer Bomber Almost 'Merged' With an F-22 Raptor to Become a Mach 2.2 B-1R 'Arsenal Ship' the US Air Force Could Surely Use Right Now
3+ week, 2+ day ago (767+ words) Four F119 engines, a fighter’s radar, AMRAAMs on reactivated hardpoints, and Mach 2.2 in exchange for 20 percent of the B-1B’s range: Boeing’s B-1R was the cheapest of three exotic bombers the 2006 defense review killed. Twenty years later, the Air Force is…...
F-22 Sea Raptor: The Plan to Turn the US Air Force F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Into A US Navy Aircraft Carrier Warplane That Looked A Little Like the F-14
3+ week, 3+ day ago (721+ words) Vice Adm. Richard Dunleavy was the officer who stopped the F-22 Sea Raptor. He publicly questioned whether the Navy needed the aircraft at all given its weight, and with the Cold War ending and budgets tightening, the Navy's own cost argument…...