The last of the Air Force’s F-106 Delta Dart fighters, relegated to serving as target drones since the early 1980s, are retiring after nearly four decades of service. Eight of the delta-wing jets, ...
An awkward thing happens late in the life of a fighter jet. It becomes too decrepit for combat but too functional for the junkyard. Don’t worry, though. The Air Force has a plan: convert them all into ...
The last of the produced F-4 Phantom jets has been converted into a flying dummy target-drone for missile training. The RF-4C, production no. 68-0599 is not a machine that is young or freshly retired, ...
Lansdale-based AEL Industries Inc. said yesterday its AEL Defense Corp. subsidiary has been awarded a $25 million contract by Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems Division of Albuquerque, N.M. Under the ...
Noteworthy the F-4 Phantom II, which flew for the first time in May 1958, originally was developed for U.S. Navy fleet defense and entered service in 1961. Oct. 25, 2016 has been a bittersweet day for ...
December 23, 2013: The U.S. Air Force recently received its last QF-4 drone aircraft. Over 300 F-4 Phantom fighters were modified to fly by remote control and the last batch of 50 were delivered over ...
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