Aircraft encyclopedia: Military

Aircraft models with their history, specifications and variants.

Bomber · 1952
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a subsonic, eight-engined heavy strategic bomber conceived in the early Cold War to deliver nuclear weapons anywhere on the globe without relying on intermediate bases. It has flown with the United States…
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Transport · 1954
Lockheed C-130 Hercules
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engined turboprop military transport aircraft, designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin), with a high wing and a rear loading ramp. Conceived to carry troops, cargo and casualties…
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Reconnaissance · 1955
Lockheed U-2
The Lockheed U-2 is a high-altitude strategic reconnaissance aircraft: a single-seater with enormously long, narrow wings, one jet engine and a structure pared down to the lightest airframe its designers could get away with, conceived in…
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Fighter · 1958
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a large two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather fighter that McDonnell Aircraft designed for the United States Navy as a fleet defence interceptor and which proved equally capable as a fighter-bomber and…
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Aircraft encyclopedia: Military

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

Lockheed C-130 Hercules

Lockheed U-2

McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II