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The “Dark Merlin” Rewriting Aerial Combat and When the 95th Becomes the “95th Pursuit Squadron.”

The 95th Squadron’s century of aircraft transitions echoes in Dark Merlin: airpower advantage endures when new technology changes not only platforms, but missions, doctrine, and decision speed.
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Midweek Sortie 16: “The Alternate Heart”—How GE’s F110 Turned the Aircraft into Better Fighters during the Great Engine War
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GBU 57’s Revival and Remembering Concorde’s Maiden Flight
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Kamikaze Drones are Reshaping Warfare and the First Flight of the Hughes Model 369 Prototype
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Midweek Sortie 15: How the UH-1 Turned Helicopters into a Battlefield System
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The Speedy Evolution Toward Aerial Miniaturization and Remembering the A-10’s First Combat During Operation Desert Storm
Desert Storm’s A-10 story was about winning the close fight by persistence; miniature drones are that same doctrinal impulse—just shrunk, multiplied…
F-35 Shot Down an Iranian Drone and Revisiting the Battle for Iwo Jima
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Midweek Sortie 14: The Quiet Cold War Mohawk—Border Surveillance and Army Aviation Reconnaissance
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Exporting Airpower through Training the Allied Cockpit and Looking Back at USMC's First Combat Mission
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