A-10 Warthog vs. Su-25
The Sukhoi Su-25, often known as the Frogfoot in NATO, was the Russian answer to the A-10 Warthog. The Su-25 was the first mass-produced jet developed by the Soviet Air…
The Sukhoi Su-25, often known as the Frogfoot in NATO, was the Russian answer to the A-10 Warthog. The Su-25 was the first mass-produced jet developed by the Soviet Air…
The E-4B offers a highly resilient command, control, and communications center to guide American forces in the event of a national emergency or the loss of ground command and control…
‘The Spitfire handles well, is light on the controls, faultless in the turn, and has a performance approaching that of the Me 109. As a fighting aircraft, however, it is…
On July 1, 1960, Col. Bruce Olmstead’s RB-47B reconnaissance aircraft was shot down when it was assigned to the 55th Wing On July 27, 2017, Col. Bruce Olmstead was buried…
The AP-3C Orion aircraft will continue to fly with 292 Squadron and 10 Squadron while the RAAF switches to the P-8A Poseidon. The stunning images in this post, which were…
The USAF operated 28 B-47 bomb wings and four RB-47 reconnaissance wings, totaling 1,357 B-47s and 175 RB-47s, during the height of their use in 1958 The Boeing B-47 Stratojet…
The NASA YF-12 Blackbird research program was ambitious; the plane, unless it was grounded for extensive maintenance or modification, flew on average once every week The images in this post…
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the F-4 Phantom II served as the U.S. Air Force’s main fighter-bomber aircraft This post’s informative infographic offers some important findings about the famed F-4…
Francis Gary Powers was supposed to have been killed and his aircraft destroyed when he failed to finish his mission. As a result, the U.S. concocted a cover story about…
At the height of the Cold War, on May 28, 1987, German teenager Mathias Rust, then 19 years old, flew a risky “peace mission” from Helsinki to Moscow At the…