How Many F-15 Eagles Are Still In Service?
In 1965, the USAF initiated the Fighter Experimental (FX) program to replace the venerable F-4 Phantom; the F-15 Eagle’s development resulted from this. The FX program would likely have started ...
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The F-4 Phantom Has the World’s Only Gun Kill at Supersonic Speed
With a top speed of Mach 2.2, the F-4’s defining characteristic was world-record speed. Can you name the most widely produced ...
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2 Israeli F-4s vs 28 Egyptian MiGs - The Fight that Changed the World
Outnumbered 14 to 1, two Israeli F-4s faced 28 Egyptian MiGs in an air battle that defied the odds. Discover the strategies, bravery, and shocking outcome that reshaped aerial combat history.
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Collins Aerospace to outfit USAF’s F-15EX with ACES II
Developed by Boeing Defense, the F-15EX is a fighter aircraft. Credit: © RTX. RTX business Collins Aerospace has secured a contract to install 144 Advanced Concept ...
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RAAF F-35 Lightning II Jets make historic stopover in Papua New Guinea
“It’s the first time the F-35 Lightning II has actually been in PNG.” PNGDF Air Transport Wing (ATW) CO, Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Vavar, highlighted the historical connection between the 75 Squadron ...
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The FDA Issued an Updated Class II Recall on 2.4 Million Cases of Granola Bars
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its recall for 2.4 million cases of MadeGood granola bars to a Class II event. In December, Riverside Natural Foods Inc., the parent company ...
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Inside the mile-long factory line where America's F-35 stealth fighter jets are made
In a sprawling factory in Texas, thousands of people work around the clock to assemble the US military's most advanced multirole fighter jet: the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.
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What Is The EOTS In The F-35 Lightning II?
The F-35 Lightning II is a single-seat, single-engine stealth aircraft used by multiple branches of the US armed forces and many allied nations around the world. Developed to operate as a multi-role ...
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An F-4 Phantom Has Crashed in Western Iran
Tehran’s fleet of F-14 Tomcat fighter jets arguably comprises one of the country’s most formidable platforms today. Both the Phantom and Tomcat ... More than 5,000 F-4s were exported throughou ...
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America Just Lost Another $82.5 Million F-35 Lightning II
Like the F-22 Raptor platform which came before it, the Lightning II was designed to feature a small radar cross-section due to its coat of radar-absorbent materials that make it nearly impossible ...
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EADS pushes 40 Eurofighters for F-4s, -5s
The requirement program, aimed at replacing the Air Force's aging fleet of F-4s and F-5s, was initially to import warplanes from 2016, but this has been delayed until 2018. "Deliveries were set ...