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Navy F-4 pilot recalls Phantom radar going black during SR-71 intercept
The SR-71 Blackbird
The SR-71 spy plane, the most advanced member of the Blackbird family, which also included the A-12 and YF-12, was designed...
The Shootdown of Target 33: Major Rudolf Anderson and the U-2 That Nearly Started World War III
The Soviet Gamble: When SAM Sites Came Alive
While the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 clearly highlighted the crucial role of the U-2 and aerial...
MiG-25 pilot who shot down Speicher’s F/A-18 could have also downed an A-6, but Iraqi GCI ordered RTB over fears he was engaging an...
“I wondered what the missile would look like as it came off his wing toward us,” Cdr Robert Besal, A-6 Intruder B/N.
On the night...
The XF-85 Goblin, the parasitic fighter
The parasitic fighter
In the immediate postwar years, the emphasis was on large bomber formations, and World War II had already proved that bombers could...
Medal of Honor for the U.S. Korean War F9F Naval Aviator who downed 4 Soviet MiG-15s in a single dogfight
Since his wingman's guns jammed, E. Royce Williams was the only one to attack the MiG-15s during the dogfight, which lasted more than 30...