The General Dynamics F-111 “Aardvark,” born from the 1960s TFX program, was a groundbreaking tactical strike aircraft and the ...

Key Points – The Russian Tu-22M3 “Backfire,” a supersonic, variable-sweep wing bomber, remains a formidable long-range strike ...

The Rockwell B-1 is a supersonic variable-sweep wing heavy bomber serving in the fleet of the United States Air Force along with its subsonic stablemates, the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and the ...

Even bigger news was Convair’s new B58 Hustler bomber, a plane eight years in development as the nation’s first truly supersonic long-range bomber. At Fort Worth, a cameraman for the Star ...

That we as humans can get into metal tubes and exceed the speed of sound high above the earth is an astounding fact and impressive accomplishment. It is further impressive that this is a state of ...

One Russian aircraft of particular concern is the Tupolev Tu-22M “Backfire,” a supersonic, variable-sweep wing, long-range strategic and maritime strike bomber. The Tu-22M was developed in the ...

Consolidated Vultee, whose giant B60 lost out to Boeing’s 6B-52 as the Air Forces’ intercontinental bomber of the future ... in the U.S. for a delta-wing jet fighter, the F-102.

The massive delta-wing bomber prototype was built by North American ... The full tilt of 65 degrees would be used at higher supersonic speeds. The design and technology developed for the XB ...

The Tu-22M is a Cold War-era, swing-wing supersonic bomber, codenamed "Backfire" by Nato, which has been used extensively in attacks on Ukrainian cities. Modern versions such as the Tu-22M3 can ...

One such example is the XB-70 Valkyrie nuclear strike bomber. As reported by Mustard ... Parts of the shockwave then bounced off the wing and back up against the body of the plane, providing ...

The Tu-160 models are often compared to the U.S. Air Force's B-2 Spirit heavy strategic bomber or the B-1 Lancer, a supersonic variable sweep-wing heavy bomber. The Tu-160 can fly faster than Mach ...

There are already concepts like zero-emission electric aircraft, supersonic ... his famous "Flying Wing" aircraft in the 1940s, laying the framework for the eventual B-2 bomber.