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The CF-14-Eh Tomcat?

February 15, 2015 // 3 Comments

The year was 1977, and the Canadian Department of National Defence had just kicked off their New Fighter Aircraft program to replace their aging fleet of CF-101 Voodoos, [read more...]

Wolfhounds and Floggers

July 27, 2014 // 4 Comments

In the wee hours of the 17th of January, 1991, the aerial campaign to gain air superiority over Iraq and Kuwait kicked off with large flights of bomber, attack and fighter [read more...]

How Combat Tree Made the F-4 Phantom II the Deadliest Fighter Over Vietnam in the 1970s

by Ian D'Costa in The Ready Room

Imagine, as a fighter pilot, being able to see your enemy without them knowing you’re even in the area. Sounds like some newfangled stealth capability you’d expect to come stock on a fifth generation fighter, like the F-22 Raptor or the F-35 Lightning II, right? But what if I were to tell you that the US Air Force possessed such a [read more...]