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Before the F/A-18 Super Hornet, Grumman envisioned a future Tomcat: the ST-21 and later the fictionalized ST-22—an aircraft capable of Mach 1.3 supercruise, AESA radar integration, and even drone ...
The F/A designation stands for fighter and attack aircraft. The F/A-18E and 18F models — E is single-seat, F is two-seat — ...
B, also known as the Standard Missile 6 Air Launched Configuration, received the new nickname in the recent Naval Aviation ...
The A-5’s max takeoff weight was 63,085 pounds. To put the A-5s size in perspective consider that the F-14 Tomcat, itself one ...
Truman witnessed a $60-70 million fighter jet vanish into the Red Sea after they “lost control” of the F/A-18E Super Hornet ...
The F/A designation stands for fighter and attack aircraft. The F/A-18E and 18F models — E is single-seat, F is two-seat — entered fleet service in 2001, replacing the F-14 Tomcat, which ...
Bell Aircraft was chosen to build a fighter around ... and fearsome arsenal of guns proved too much for its enemies. The F-14 Tomcat, the legendary Top Gun fighter, had a troubled early history ...
The AIM-174B long-range air-to-air missile made what could possibly be its first public appearance since it was fielded ...
Vincent Aiello, then 8 years old, peers into an F-14A Tomcat cockpit at the Naval Air ... necessary in order to ultimately fly fighter aircraft. Vincent Aiello’s wide-eyed expression on April ...
The aircraft later utilized packets of 5.5-inch ... swept-geometry wings similar to those of the now-retired F-14 Tomcat. The F-111 used dual Pratt & Whitney TF 30-P-3 engines, each producing ...