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Here's some semi-informed thoughts that I'd like to use to start a discussion more than "be right". This indicates to me that AIM-260 JATM is going to not be focused solely on lon...
Moctezuma was also fascinated by the Spaniards and wanted to either entice them to stay or find a way to entrap them. He was incredibly powerful, and the power dynamics between Moc...
The F-16A Block 15 ADF was a pretty unique situation. They added a CW transmitter to the F-16 for target illumination because APG-66 could not guide AIM-7s as originally procured....
Today, I'm gonna cover the fire control system of another rocket-armed interceptor. This time, it's the F-86L. This was an upgrade of the F-86D that allowed for SAGE datalink integ...
The US Navy, like the US Air Force, wanted a better solution for bomber interception after the end of the Second World War. The engineers at Naval Ordnance Test Station China Lake...
The AIM-7E Sparrow failed in Vietnam. Today, I intend to explain what went wrong, how, and what was done to correct it. 𧡠https://t.co/CGqiRI6l5i
The F-4E has a pulse-only radar, but it was not always supposed to be that way. CORDS, or "Coherent On Receive Doppler System", was a genius Hughes product designed to make the lig...