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The F-111B Was Supposed to Be a US Navy Aircraft Carrier Fighter. It Exceeded 80,000 Pounds, Needed a Wingspan 7 Feet Wider Than the Air Force Version Just to Slow Down Enough to Land, and the Navy Walked Away in May 1968.
4+ hour, 59+ min ago (485+ words) McNamara ordered the Air Force and Navy to buy the same aircraft to save money. The two services needed opposite things, and the compromise could not land on a US Navy aircraft carrier. That's why the F-111B failed....
The US Air Force F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Holds Speeds Above Mach 1.5 Without Ever Lighting an Afterburner. Its 2 Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 Engines Make About 35,000 Pounds of Thrust Each, and the Fleet Just Passed 1,000,000 Flight Hours on an Engine Last Built in 2013.
5+ hour, 21+ min ago (428+ words) Most fighters go supersonic by dumping raw fuel into the exhaust stream and emptying their tanks in minutes. The F-22 does it on dry thrust and stays there....
Over 4,000 Missiles Failed to Hit a Single US Air Force Mach 3.2 SR-71 Blackbird. Speed Was the Only Way to Survive as It Had No Weapons to Fire Back
5+ hour, 48+ min ago (1379+ words) An estimated 4,000 missiles were fired at the SR-71 Blackbird and not one hit. The complete story of the attacks, the fighters, and how speed beat them all....
The US Navy's New $23,400,000,000 Nuclear Trump-Class Battleship Keeps Getting Called Obsolete Thanks to Drones. Chinese Military Experts Just Tested That Theory Out
14+ hour, 6+ min ago (487+ words) The Trump-class battleship was ridiculed as a relic. The first serious technical argument for its guns came out of a People's Liberation Army naval academy journal....
Move Over, Patton: 276 Years Ago, Frederick the Great's Famous Line on Defense Is Still of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
14+ hour, 31+ min ago (412+ words) Concentration of force was the whole of Frederick's genius. The line is a warning against spreading an army thin enough to be strong nowhere, and it has outlived every war he fought....
45,000-Ton US Navy Battleship USS Alabama Was Towed Through the Panama Canal With 11 Inches of Clearance on Each Side. She Carried 9 16-Inch Guns Firing 2,700-Pound Shells, Earned 9 Battle Stars Across the Pacific, and Never Lost a Sailor to Enemy Fire.
14+ hour, 34+ min ago (717+ words) More than 3,000 workers in Norfolk built the battleship USS Alabama around the clock and finished in 30 months — nine months ahead of schedule. She was decommissioned after four and a half years....
The Mach 3 US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Ran on a Fuel So Stable You Could Put Out a Match in It. Then They Had to Invent a Way to Light It.
15+ hour, 9+ min ago (1397+ words) The SR-71 Blackbird JP-7's real work was not burning. It was absorbing about 700 kilowatts of heat off the airframe and arriving at the burners already at 600 degrees Fahrenheit....
Russia Built a Titanium Hulled 'Golden Fish' Nuclear Submarine That Could Hit 44 Knots That Had 2 Reactors. The Goal Was to Hunt US Navy Aircraft Carriers
16+ hour, 18+ min ago (396+ words) At full speed the fastest submarine ever built, the K-222 (also known as the Papa-class or Project 661) was so loud it announced itself. The thing it relied on to escape pursuit was the thing that told pursuers where it was....
Japan's Mach 2.5 F-15J Fighter Won't Ever Fly for the US Air Force As It Was Custom Built for Tokyo
17+ hour, 16+ min ago (497+ words) Japan is the largest F-15 operator on earth outside the US Air Force, and has been for forty years. The rebuild costs more than most countries spend on new fighters. The F-15J is a real powerhouse....
To Fly the US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3 and 85,000 Feet You Needed an Astronaut's Body, Iron Nerves, and the Stomach to Outrun Soviet Missiles
17+ hour, 39+ min ago (812+ words) SR-71 Blackbird crews took the same physical NASA gave its astronauts. Above 63,000 feet, an unprotected human body's fluids begin to boil, and the SR-71 cruised far higher than that....