When the Korean War exposed a critical shortage of modern medium bombers, the United States Air Force made an unusual decision: it adopted and rebuilt a foreign aircraft design for American combat ...
Serving for thirty-six years, the A-6 was a hallmark of the Navy and Marine Corps’ offensive capabilities. The airframe resulted from a Bureau of Aeronautics request for an all-weather attack aircraft ...
MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia on Friday rejected U.S. concerns about its use of a former American base in Vietnam for the refueling of Russian bomber flights around U.S. territory in the ...
A U.S. Navy LTV A-7E Corsair II (BuNo 157526, pilot Michael A. Ruth, call sign "Banjo") of Attack Squadron VA-195 Dambusters bombs the Hai Duong railway and highway bridge in North Vietnam. VA-195 was ...
Air Force Capt. Wayne Wachsmuth climbs a ladder to board the cockpit of a FB-111 fighter-bomber in this photograph from 1969. Wachsmuth was a B-52 bomber pilot who flew missions over Vietnam from 1966 ...