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B-1B ‘Bone’ goes hypersonic: US bomber to carry Mach 5+ missiles on wing pylons
Per Boeing’s new release, each pylon can carry either two 2,000-pound-class weapons or a single weapon exceeding 5,000 pounds ...
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The B-1B Lancer Might Soon Fire Hypersonic Missiles
The U.S. Air Force is breathing new life into its aging B-1B Lancer bombers by equipping them with new external pylons, a ...
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Boeing Just Won a Major Contract for the B-1B Lancer Bomber
Even as the B-1B Lancer is on track to be retired in the mid-2030s to make way for the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider, the Air ...
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Developer Picked for High-Speed VTOL Aircraft
DARPA named Bell Textron to proceed with the next phase of its SPRINT X-Plane project, to design and build an aircraft that ...
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DARPA selects Bell Helicopters to build SPRINT high-speed VTOL craft
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Bell Helicopters to build the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) unmanned ...
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USS Michael Monsoor arrives in Japan for port visit
The stealth destroyer is slated to be upgraded with a hypersonic missile system that the Navy plans to field by the mid-2020s ...