The MiG-25 looked so extreme that it helped reshape American fighter design before the West fully understood what it really was. When the Foxbat appeared publicly in the late 1960s, Western analysts ...

The history of military aviation is, in a few ways, a story of pushing speed to its limits.

The XB-70 Valkyrie was designed as a giant Mach 3 bomber that could fly at extreme altitude, outrun defenses, and carry ...

Airplane performance specifications don’t often make the news anymore. The tempo of aerospace development has slowed since the earlier eras of jet technology, when speed and altitude seemed to be ...

Summary: Boeing’s F-15EX Eagle II, boasting remarkable aerodynamic efficiency and powered by twin GE F110-GE-229 engines, initially claimed to reach speeds nearing Mach 3. However, Boeing program ...