The 1950s and 1960s were a busy time for U.S. fighter jet development. Aircraft like the P-80 Shooting Star, introduced in 1945, brought America into the jet age. The war in Korea demanded even quicker, more agile fighters to stem the heavy U.S. losses of P-80s to...
“It’s not a contest or a competition. There are no winners or losers. It’s about training and saving lives.” ~ Narrator, Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag Above a 12,700 square mile area of desert in Nevada, F-15 Eagles from the United States Air Force, Eurofighter...
Flying low across the Chadian landscape, the two French Mirage F1 aircraft are hoping to see a radar signature from a radar station to their north. As they scream through the barren landscape, slipping between canyon rocks about 100 feet above the desert floor, a...
The A-4 Skyhawk was a single-seat delta wing subsonic jet-powered carrier-capable aggressor aircraft flown by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. It was instrumental during the Vietnam War, launching from carriers stationed at Yankee Station in the South China Sea just...
On January 16, 1991, coalition armed forces led by the United States and comprised of 35 other countries were in the final hours of preparation. A United Nations resolution deadline of January 15, 1991, stating Iraq should leave Kuwait had passed. For many weeks,...
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