Featured in SRAMBYThomas 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, 2020ShareBYJoseph TrevithickJan 19, 2020ShareThe Time When A Burning B-52 Nearly Caused A Nuclear Catastrophe “Worse than Chernobyl”A simple shift in wind direction would have destroyed the nuclear weapons inside, scattering radioactive plutonium for miles around, or worse. BYJoseph TrevithickJan 19, 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, 2019Share
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
BYJoseph TrevithickJan 19, 2020ShareThe Time When A Burning B-52 Nearly Caused A Nuclear Catastrophe “Worse than Chernobyl”A simple shift in wind direction would have destroyed the nuclear weapons inside, scattering radioactive plutonium for miles around, or worse. BYJoseph TrevithickJan 19, 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