France shocked the world with the Nord Griffon 1500—a hybrid jet and ramjet aircraft that briefly became the fastest fighter on Earth. Reaching Mach 2.19, it beat American and Soviet prototypes in ...

In 1986, during the height of the Iran-Iraq War, a squadron of Iranian F-5 Tiger II fighters was sent on a mission they were never meant to win - intercepting an Iraqi MiG-25 Foxbat, one of the ...