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Simple Flying provides a round-up of some of US military aviation's most notable experimental aircraft. These X-planes have forever changed flying! The Bell X-1 left an indelible mark on both the ...
The U.S. Navy should convert USS Nimitz, the fleet’s oldest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, into a test ship once the flattop decommissions in the mid-2020s.
The X-47B experimental aircraft took off from Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland before approaching the USS George H.W. Bush, which is operating off the coast of Virginia.
Nicknamed the ‘Bohai Sea Monster,’ the Chinese ‘ekranoplan’ is an experimental reconstruction of a Soviet-era design.
In fact, it is. Developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Northrop Grumman, Tern bears a strong resemblance to several experimental ...
The Indian Navy landed a prototype of a naval version of its Light Combat Aircraft on the aircraft carrier Vikramaditya on Jan. 11, 2020. (Courtesy of India's Defence Research and Development ...
An "experimental explosion" triggered by the Navy about 100 miles off the Florida coast registered as a 3.9 magnitude earthquake on Friday. The blast is known as a "shock trial," an explosion ...
The U.S. Navy should convert USS Nimitz, the fleet’s oldest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, into a test ship once the flattop decommissions in the mid-2020s.