As part of a plan to build a strategic bomber for deep penetration and nuclear bombing runs during the Cold War, North ...

The XB-70 Valkyrie was a massive undertaking on the part of North American Aviation, which pitched the plane to the U.S. Air Force as a successor to the legendary B-52 bomber. At the time that the ...

During the Cold War era from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, the skies above Southern California’s Mojave Desert served as a testbed for the newest, biggest, fastest and deadliest military aircraft ...

-Engineered to "ride" its own shockwave for fuel efficiency, the massive bomber was a technological masterpiece. However, its development coincided with the dawn of the "missile age." -The rise of ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Through the 1950s, Soviet air defenses pivoted from interceptor fighters to missiles—and, particularly after the Soviets’ successful downing of a U-2 spy plane on May ...