Nearly all of the aircraft that were transferred to the Coast Guard from the US Navy or from the US Air Force served with the Coast Guard under their original serial numbers, not being allocated a separate USCG serial number. However, the system was not always consistent, and sometimes aircra...
The US Air Force is planning for Congressional approval to procure additional Lockheed Martin F/A-22 multirole stealth fighter aircraft. These additional aircraft will leave the service more than 100 raptor aircraft short of its overall requirement. The strategy would keep the service far short of ...
Mitchell became an outspoken proponent of anindependent air forceand continued working on improvements in aircraft and their use. He claimed that the airplane had rendered thebattleshipobsolete and, over thevociferousprotests of the Navy Department, carried his point in 1921 and 1923 by sinking sever...
On August 1, 1907, the Aeronautical Division of the United States Army Signal Corps was established, and the United States Army purchased its first heavier-than-air aircraft, a Wright Model A, in 1908. It was allocated the serial number 1. Further Army aircraft were assigned serial numbers i...
The T-X is the Air Force’snext big contract, with the long competition for the right to produce 350 next-generation trainer aircraft finally expected to conclude before the end of the year. Boeing-Saab, Lockheed Martin-KAI, and Leonardo are the final three competitors for the T-X...
"Today, an Air Force aircraft attacked, under the intelligence guidance of the Israel Defense Forces, the Shin Bet and the Southern Command, terrorists who were operating in a military headquarters located in the 'Al-Tabin' school complex near the mosque in Darje Tafah area, which is...
shot down five enemy aircraft during the Korean War. Bordelon was assigned to composite squadron VC-3 Blue Nemesis, which was deployed to Korea on the aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CVA-37) from 24 January to 21 September to Korea as part of Carrier Air Group 15 (CVG-15). 80-G-...
At the same time, US forces may also face large numbers of advanced fighter aircraft posing an air-to-air threat not seen since the Cold War.John HaysteadThe journal of electronic defense
While emerging many years after the F-16, it certainly seems possible that China developed and deployed the aircraft in large numbers as part of a key effort to rival US Air Force 4th-generation jets. With a reported range of 1,150 nautical miles and speeds of Mach 2, according to both...
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