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At the Paris Air Show in June 1989, Soviet test pilot Viktor Pugachev leveled his Sukhoi Su-27 into a routine display pass, then did something Western aviation engineers in the crowd had never seen a fighter jet do: he pulled...
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On the morning of August 19, 1981, two F-14 Tomcats from squadron VF-41 "Black Aces," flying combat air patrol off the USS Nimitz, were vectored toward two Libyan Su-22 fighters approaching from an air base near Sirte. One of the...
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Some warships fight one dramatic battle and vanish into legend. Others quietly outlast every rival design, get built again and again for over three decades, and become the backbone of an entire navy without ever needing a single headline-grabbing engagement....
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In April 1993, with Somalia in chaos and famine spreading through Mogadishu, General Colin Powell — then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — landed aboard a single ship to review military operations taking place on the ground below....
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On September 2, 1996, two B-52H bombers took off from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, staged through Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, and flew a 34-hour, 16,000-mile round trip — the longest distance ever flown for a combat...
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