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SR-72: The Air Force’s New Hypersonic Bomber?

The SR-72 “Darkstar” is envisioned as a Mach-6, air-breathing ISR platform—but could it strike? -Hypersonic speed complicates ...
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The U.S. Air Force’s B-52J Bomber Crisis

The U.S. Air Force’s ambitious B-52J modernization program, intended to keep the bomber flying until the 2050s, is in serious ...
The flight was intended to demonstrate “U.S. commitment to proactively deter adversary threats to the U.S. homeland," ...
Multiple B-52H Stratofortress bombers flew for hours off the coast of Venezuela amid lethal military strikes on vessels in ...
Four B-1Bs from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, were dispatched to Japan for the Bomber Task Force mission. They arrived last ...
Two B-1 bombers flew over the Caribbean in latest show of force as U.S. military operations in the region continue to grow.
The flights signal a possible widening of the U.S. campaign against cartels and alleged drug traffickers.
The U.S. military has built up an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea. The Navy has eight warships in the region.
Experts call it "21st-century gunboat diplomacy" as U.S. positions strike-capable forces in Caribbean amid tensions with ...
The U.S. Air Force deployed two supersonic B-1 Lancer bombers to the Venezuela coast as tensions heat up between the two ...