Featured in FB-111BYThomas NewdickJan 9, 2021ShareThis Stretched Super FB-111 Was A Low-Cost Challenger To The B-1 BomberWith the B-1 canceled, the Air Force looked to a radically revised, truly strategic FB-111 variant that carried more than double the fuel and weapons. BYThomas NewdickJan 9, 2021ShareBYJoseph TrevithickJul 1, 2020ShareThe Air Force Almost Got A Near Hypersonic Radar Plane Killing Cruise Missile Decades AgoThe primary goal was to give bombers, such as the B-52, a means to destroy Soviet air defense sites and airborne early warning and control aircraft. BYJoseph TrevithickJul 1, 2020ShareBYTyler RogowayMar 8, 2020ShareThis Strategic Air Command Airpower Demonstration From 1987 Is Just BonkersA B-52, KC-10, FB-111, and two KC-135s pulled off wild maneuvers, many of which wouldn’t be allowed today, over Offutt AFB at the end of the Cold War. BYTyler RogowayMar 8, 2020ShareBYTyler RogowayDec 1, 2019ShareB-52s Would Have Nuked Their Way Through Soviet Air Defenses With These MissilesThe AGM-69 Short Range Attack Missile was a vital, but seldom discussed part of America’s airborne deterrent during the last half of the Cold War. BYTyler RogowayDec 1, 2019ShareBYTyler RogowayFeb 28, 2017ShareThis Is What USAF Bomber Pilots Would Wear During a Nuclear ApocalypseIt’s an obscure Cold War-era technological relic that’s still in use—and becoming increasingly relevant. BYTyler RogowayFeb 28, 2017Share
BYThomas NewdickJan 9, 2021ShareThis Stretched Super FB-111 Was A Low-Cost Challenger To The B-1 BomberWith the B-1 canceled, the Air Force looked to a radically revised, truly strategic FB-111 variant that carried more than double the fuel and weapons. BYThomas NewdickJan 9, 2021Share
BYJoseph TrevithickJul 1, 2020ShareThe Air Force Almost Got A Near Hypersonic Radar Plane Killing Cruise Missile Decades AgoThe primary goal was to give bombers, such as the B-52, a means to destroy Soviet air defense sites and airborne early warning and control aircraft. BYJoseph TrevithickJul 1, 2020Share
BYTyler RogowayMar 8, 2020ShareThis Strategic Air Command Airpower Demonstration From 1987 Is Just BonkersA B-52, KC-10, FB-111, and two KC-135s pulled off wild maneuvers, many of which wouldn’t be allowed today, over Offutt AFB at the end of the Cold War. BYTyler RogowayMar 8, 2020Share
BYTyler RogowayDec 1, 2019ShareB-52s Would Have Nuked Their Way Through Soviet Air Defenses With These MissilesThe AGM-69 Short Range Attack Missile was a vital, but seldom discussed part of America’s airborne deterrent during the last half of the Cold War. BYTyler RogowayDec 1, 2019Share
BYTyler RogowayFeb 28, 2017ShareThis Is What USAF Bomber Pilots Would Wear During a Nuclear ApocalypseIt’s an obscure Cold War-era technological relic that’s still in use—and becoming increasingly relevant. BYTyler RogowayFeb 28, 2017Share