USS Carl Vinson – The U.S. Navy’s Most Powerful Aircraft Carrier
Meet the USS Carl Vinson: Today, seven of the United States Navy’s 10 Nimitz-class carriers are named for past presidents, while the lead vessel honors World War II officer Admiral Chester Nimitz, the United States’ last…
Russian ‘Terminator’ BMPT Is Now Fighting in Ukraine
While Russia’s BMPT Terminator was designed as to serve a relatively unexplored role as an armored fighting vehicle specifically designed to support Russian tanks, its flashy name…
F-111 Aardvark: What Made This Strike Aircraft A Legend
The F-111 was a pioneering aircraft. Named “Aardvark” because of its long-nose and terrain-following abilities, the F-111 was a supersonic, medium-range, multirole jet that served with the…
The SR-71 Blackbird Cost $200,000 an Hour to Fly
The SR-71 Blackbird was a long-range reconnaissance plane with remarkable performance characteristics: Mach 3 speed, and 85,000 service ceiling, and an 11,820 foot per minute rate of climb. The SR-71 was so fast that…
The A-10 Warthog Might Finally Be on the Brink
It was just last month that Boeing announced that it had started the latest round of deliveries for new A-10 Thunderbolt II wings, which had arrived at Hill Air…
Meet the Gloster Meteor: Britain’s World War II Jet Fighter
When one thinks of WWII jet fighters, the image that naturally comes to mind is the Luftwaffe’s Messerschmitt Me-262 “Schwalbe,” or “Swallow”. This makes sense, as it was the…
USS Gerald R. Ford: The Largest Navy Aircraft Carrier Ever is Without Equal
Nothing Can Match the USS Gerald R. Ford – As the 38th president of the United States, Gerald R. Ford helped the nation heal after the Watergate scandal. A…
Meet the F-101 Voodoo: The Fighter That Broke All the Rules
A member of the “Century Series,” the McDonnell F-101 Voodoo was a cutting-edge airframe when first flown in 1954. Initially designed as a long-range bomber escort, the F-101 instead…
The AH-64 Apache Helicopter Broke All the Rules
Named for a nomadic tribe of Native Americans, expert horse riders whose lives revolved around the buffalo, the Boeing AH-64 Apache is the US Army’s premier attack helicopter. Loaded with sophisticated…
XB-70A: The Mach 3 Bomber That Would Have Made Russia Freak Out
It was a mammoth and speedy nuclear bomber. The XB-70A Valkyrie was the biggest airplane to fly MACH 3. The concept for the deep-penetration bomber emerged at the height of the…