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Russia calls the fighter one of the most advanced fifth-generation fighters in the world, yet nearly everything about the aircraft remains surrounded by unanswered questions. Designed as Moscow’s response to the F-22 Raptor, it took a different approach to modern air combat, sacrificing some stealth for extreme maneuverability, speed, powerful sensors, internal weapons bays, and the ability to track multiple targets across a wide field of view. Continue reading
The Lockheed F-94 Starfire was built to solve a terrifying Cold War problem: enemy aircraft were attacking at night, when American pilots could barely see what they were hunting. Equipped with radar, an afterburner, and a dedicated radar operator, the F-94 became one of America’s most advanced interceptors. Continue reading
The F-104 Starfighter was built around a brutally simple Cold War philosophy: make a fighter smaller, faster, and higher-flying than almost anything the Soviet Union could put in the sky. Designed by legendary engineer Kelly Johnson after speaking directly with American pilots fighting in Korea, the aircraft combined a massive J79 engine with razor-thin wings barely 22 feet across, creating a machine pilots nicknamed the “missile with a man in it.” Continue reading
For years, the MiG-25 Foxbat terrified the West. Flying higher and faster than almost anything in the American arsenal, the mysterious Soviet interceptor seemed capable of reshaping the balance of air power during the Cold War. Israeli pilots couldn’t catch it, missiles struggled to reach it, and intelligence agencies knew almost nothing about its true capabilities. Continue reading
The Heinkel He 219 Uhu was designed for one terrifying purpose: hunt British bombers in complete darkness. Armed with radar, heavy cannons, upward-firing Schräge Musik weapons, and even ejection seats for both crewmen, the Uhu represented one of Nazi Germany’s most advanced night fighters. Continue reading
A video circulating on social media shows an elderly Ukrainian woman successfully disabling a Russian fiber-optic FPV “waiting drone” by approaching the landed device and carefully removing its thread spool, effectively disabling it completely. Continue reading
A drone show illuminated the skies over New York Harbor Wednesday night as part of a tribute marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Continue reading
The Sukhoi Su-15 was created to be one of the Soviet Union’s ultimate Cold War guardians, a supersonic interceptor designed to race toward American nuclear bombers and destroy them before they could reach Soviet cities.