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The Air Force’s ‘Shockwave’ Mach 3 XB-70 Valkyrie Bomber Would Have Been A Mistake

The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was a “technical marvel” of the 1950s—a Mach 3, 70,000-foot nuclear bomber designed to replace the B-52. -It used a “revolutionary” principle called “compression lift ...
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The Mach 2.2 B-1A Bomber Has A Message for the U.S. Air Force

Key Points and Summary – The B-1A aimed to fuse B-52 range with B-58 speed: a Mach 2.2, variable-sweep nuclear bomber built ...