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Confess that this one has me stumped. What is under the port wing? My guess is that it is some kind of a drone, but it is far smaller than the only two-engine drone I can think of (CT41) other than modified Bomarc. The rest of the load-out is pretty eccentric as well - Harpoon, Maverick and is...

The latest work of my friend Davide Sivolella an aeronautical engineer and a skilled author, who lives in England. If you want to learn about never realized Space Shuttle versions, this is the right book...

In the 80s, when the AdA withdrew its Mystère IVAs from service, some of them received somewhat special liveries !o_O It seems that one was painted in the colours of a fictitious Arab air force. Is there any picture of it ? :) View: https://www.flickr.com/photos/chaika12/34357274081

Found this reference to USAF fighters escorting Kennedy on his famous visit to West Berlin. https://www.panam.org/pan-am-stories/632-a-dangerous-game I had always assumed that no Western combat aircraft had flown through the air corridors to Berlin during the Cold War. There were plans for...

A space weapon concept model from 1961-62. More jibberjabber here: https://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=5018

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2022/09/13/an-f-16-pilot-died-when-his-ejection-seat-failed-was-it-counterfeit/ Lovely.

A more theoretical question than alternative history, was there any interest within SAC to develop a "Heavy" ICBM to match the R-36's capabilities? If so, could it fit within the existing Titan II launch sites? Titan II and R-36 are somewhat surprisingly similar in diameter and height, though...

As we all know, the USAF went into Vietnam without a dedicated air superiority fighter and suffered for it, particularly in the early years with unreliable sparrows/sidewinders, no cannons on the Phantoms, and inadequate BFM training. Que the arrival of the F-4E, along with better missiles and...

https://thespacereview.com/article/4440/1

A sneak preview of USAF new EC-37B Compass Call visiting David-Monthan today, according to Offutt AFB Public Affairs. Cheers

After WWII the US military developed a large scale exercise using a fake country called Aggressor. They were known as the Trigonist (see Circle Trigonist link, their flag, manuals, etc.) and the military developed a plethora of information and documentation to support these operations. I thought...

Associated with McDonnell-Douglas' Long Range Interceptor (LRI) studies in 1954. Drawing is of the Model 111A weapons bay which could carry 3. Model Description Date Model 103A AIR TO AIR MISSILE CARRYING SPECIAL WARHEAD. 24000LB. THRUST MOTOR. LENGTH 110 INCHES. FIXED FINS. SOLID ROCKET...

Boeing https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/boeing-model-731-for-system-476l-c-141-rival.21959 Douglas https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/douglas-d-2085-logistic-transport-support-system-ss-476l.20057/ Lockheed...

https://www.airforcemag.com/details-emerge-on-new-unmanned-long-range-bomber-and-fighter-projects/ So uuh... Supersonic?

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/03/general-atomics-debuts-gambit-drone-for-air-forces-unmanned-sensor-contest/ View: https://twitter.com/IntelWalrus/status/1499204727438987266 https://www.ga-asi.com/ga-asi-introduces-gambit

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What would happen if the usaf f-15 project was canceled by congress and the usaf was forced to use the navys f-14 like what had happened with the f-4.

Here we go again, folks. Aerospace company chasing VC money with promise of a miracle -- SSTO from a runway to space and back. This time, for sure, Rocky. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/radian-announces-plans-to-build-one-of-the-holy-grails-of-spaceflight/

I read that Convair proposed the Model 6 heavy-lift transport as a derivative of the Advanced C-99 project with the backswept wings and tail surfaces from the YB-60 competitor to the B-52, and I wanted to ask what the course of US heavy-lift capability during the early Cold War would have been...