U.S. Air Force’s First Officially Autonomous Combat Drone Completes Successful Maiden Flight
The U.S. Air Force’s first official combat drone took to the skies just a year after development and construction began. ...
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First American Attack Aircraft, Part 5: Production A-12 “Shrike”
Although Curtiss won the 1931 competition for a new attack aircraft, its A-8 did not enter mass production. The main ...
Boeing Reveals F/A-XX Fighter Render – And It Looks Familiar
Boeing has released a new render of its F/A-XX project, a next-generation fighter for the U.S. Navy. Notably, it bears ...
First American Attack Aircraft, Part 4: On the Eve of the 1930s
In the early 1930s, the U.S. finally introduced its first production attack aircraft: the Curtiss A-3 biplane. The plane proved ...
Weapons of Ukraine’s Victory: Modern Long-Range ERAM Missiles
The Trump administration has approved the sale of 3,350 long-range ERAM missiles to Ukraine. In this piece, we’ll take a ...
US Government Approves Sale of 3,350 Long-Range ERAM Missiles to Ukraine
The Trump administration has approved the sale of 3,350 long-range Extended Range Attack Munitions (ERAM) to Ukraine, with a contract ...
American Attack Aircraft, Part 3: The First Production Variants
As mentioned in the previous part, in 1925 the leadership of the U.S. Army Air Service concluded that large, armored ...
Classified U.S. Aircraft RAT55 Spotted at Area 51
A photographer captured rare footage of one of the U.S. military’s most secretive aircraft, a Boeing 737 better known by ...
First American Attack Aircrafts, Part 2: Alternative Projects of the Early 1920s
The GA-1 and GA-2 aircraft, discussed in the first part of this series, were not the only early American attempts ...