Aircraft Carriers, Fighter Jets
Before the Moskvas… Russia and former USSR have since the 1960’s been one of the world’s most active aircraft carrier builders. Only the US, UK, Japan and France has had more of these vessels controlling their waters. Right after the second world war a lot of...
Aircraft Carriers, Fighter Jets
The Nimitz aircraft carrier. An enormous source of destruction, capable of delivering hundreds of tons of explosives to its enemy in under an hour, but it’s much more than that. Its 100 000 tons of steel, 18 floors under the deck and its impressive length of 332...
Aircraft Carriers, Fighter Jets
The aircraft carrier is widely known to be a weapon of tremendous power but its shape and size look like nothing else and its features are surprisingly unknown to ordinary people. That is the reason why in this article we will look into the exterior of this...
Aircraft Carriers, Fighter Jets
How the aircraft carrier idea started USS North Carolina (ACR-12) was the first naval vessel to launch an aircraft while UNDERWAY- in 1916, 25 years before the commissioning of the BB55, which is pictured. Eugene Ely takes off from a temporary ramp on the USS...
Fighter Jets, Stealth Fighter Jets, World Records Aviation
USAF and RuAF Fleet strength Let’s start with a little bit of heroic (maybe slightly biased) videos from both sides. The Americans are further down. The US Air Force has since the end of the second world war been regarded as the supreme air force of the world,...
Fighter Jets, Stealth Fighter Jets
The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor has for long been claimed to be the best air superiority fighter ever built, even before it was actually completed American officials said that with its stealth technology it would outperform any fighter that stood in its way without...
Fighter Jets, Stealth Fighter Jets
Boeing promotes F-35C Exit Strategy We have repeatedly covered the 5th generation topic, and asked if these jets are the last ones and would finally be replaced by UAVS. Articles about the topic can be found here (cost), here (UAVS vs jet fighters) or here (comparison...
Fighter Flights, Fighter Jets
The future of tourist fighter jet flying We recently published an article about the history of tourist fighter jet rides on this blog (see link resources at the end of the article). It was a brief summary about how these jet flights became available, and the political...
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