Fastest Plane Ever: The story of the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane
In 1985, an administrative sergeant assigned to America’s SR-71 unit attempted to sell top-secret intelligence about the airframe to the Soviets. Ultimately, the sergeant was arrested and…
Meet Fiat G.91: The warrior who scared the whole world once of Italy
Fiat Aviazione was the winner of the NBMR-1 competition, and then G.91 was born. G.91 entered service with the Italian Air Force in 1961, and with the…
The AH-64 Apache might be the ultimate attack helicopter
In this hypersensitive, Politically Correct, Cancel Culture-crazy world we live in, having any entity named for American Indians, er, Native Americans, is becoming more and more verboten,…
The F-35 Stealth Fighter: Now it has been equiped kill missiles
The F-35 stealth fighter sure is expensive, but when a weapon like this is so dominant it won’t come cheap. And it seems not the F-35 now…
The AC-130J ghostrider is getting a ‘New’ gun
The AC-130J Is Getting a Gun Upgrade: The US Air Force’s AC-130 family of gunships has been a constant in every conflict that the United States has engaged…
The B-52 bomber is 70 years old. How is it still flying?
The B-52 First Took Flight Seventy Years Ago – The year was 1952. The Buick Roadmaster was the top-selling automobile that year, with a base price of…
IAF plans to lease airborne early warning planes to fill in gaps in its capabilities
Due to delays in getting airborne early warning systems, the Indian Air Force (IAF) wants to rent such planes to make up for its lack of them….
SR-71: 4,000 missiles could not take down this spy plane
SR-71 Spy Plane Able to Evade Enemy Air Defenses Without a Scratch: The SR-71 Blackbird put the capital “E” on evasion. The enemy fired missiles at it…
Why nothing can replace the CH-47 Chinook
Meet the CH-47 Chinook: One would not expect the largest helicopter in the U.S. inventory to be its fastest. The hulking CH-47 Chinook – a cargo helicopter…
The Soviets VVP-6 missile helicopter was used to a flying monster
The Soviet Union considered building a massive helicopter that could launch surface-to-air missiles in mid-air. The advent of vertical-landing “jump jet” ᴡᴀʀplanes inspired the idea, Yefim Gordon…