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Russia’s Unsophisticated Su-15 Was Deadly For a Time With around 1,300 examples in service at the type’s peak, the twin-engine Su-15 in the late 1970s was the most numerous interceptor in Soviet service. Here's What You Need to Remember: Given the distances involved, the U.S. Air Force might have struggled to sustain an escort force all the way to the Soviet interior, but Shatrov worried nonetheless. “While F-4s and Su-15s had the same maneuvering characteristics and armament, the F-15 would have proved a far more challenging battle opponent,” he said. Candid comments by a former Sov...

US Air Force/Kelly White "Ghost Rider" and "Wise Guy," the only B-52 Stratofortress bombers to be resurrected from the Air Force's "boneyard," are undergoing maintenance before returning to Minot Air Force Base. Both were retired to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group in Arizona and were never to fly again, but they've been resurrected to bring the fleet back to the Congressionally mandated 76 B-52s. Only two B-52 Stratofortress bombers have been restored out of the Boneyard to be returned to the fleet: "Ghost Rider," tail number 61-0007, and "...

Iran's Navy will resume patrols in the Red Sea, the Chief of Staff of the armed forces said

US Air Force On January 10, 1964, a B-52H bomber with the serial number 61-0023 took off from Kansas on a test mission to examine the effects of turbulence at varying altitudes and airspeeds. By the time the bomber landed in Arkansas hours later, its vertical stabilizer had been shorn off, and the Air Force had learned a lot more about what the B-52 could take. On January 10, 1964, Boeing civilian test pilot Chuck Fisher and his three man crew launched from Wichita, Kansas, for a mission aboard B-52H serial number 61-0023. The aircraft was involved in a test miss...

The deployment is the third flight of nuclear-capable Stratofortresses to the region in less than two months