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The story behind the jet that redefined air combat

Celebrate 70 years of the legendary F-4 Phantom! From its origins in 1955, when the US Navy ordered McDonnell Aircraft to ...
Oh, Colonel Kilgore, off you go without your Renny Yater Spoon. Your magical, trusty, beloved steed of a “very good board,” as you so plainly put it. And to have it pilfered by none other than a ...
The Avro Vulcan, a thunderous and charismatic Cold War bomber, is the most well-known British bomber after the wartime ...
Why around a third of F-5 Tiger IIs remain in service with air forces around the world and the family became one of Northrop's most popular.
Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and its escorts are operating in the Atlantic Ocean as they sail to U.S. Central Command amid tensions with Iran, USNI News has learned.  Gerald R. Ford ...
Black History Month highlights Black servicemembers whose courage shaped the military despite segregation and discrimination.
F-4 Phantom: The Mach 2.2 Jet That Defined Cold War Airpower Summary and Key Points – The F-4 Phantom II emerged from the U.S. Navy’s 1950s demand for a radar-and-missile interceptor that could defend ...
Ten of us launched from Harkers Island into the Outer Banks. None of us could paddle worth a damn. By day three, we moved ...
"We should not wait for American soldiers to be engaged in a drone war to modernize how we train, equip and support those ...
Time was when throwing your political opponents into prison on trumped-up charges was the deplorable domain of despots over whom we claimed moral superiority: Saddam Hussein or the Iranian mullahs, ...
There is perhaps no business sector in the United States that is subject to more regular criticism than America’s defense ...
Military aviation history is filled with aircraft that achieved extraordinary performance yet never became widely fielded.