In the 1950s, East Germany desired a new airliner, so Brunolf Baade, a wartime bomber designer, responded with a futuristic design. It was dubbed the Type 152 and based on the EF 150 bomber concept he ...

That the heavy fighters were called zerstorer (destroyers) was emblematic of the confidence the Germans placed in their heavy fighters. They were considered the elite of the Luftwaffe arm, and they ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The heavy fighter concept still lives today, but in a mutated form. When we speak of the “heavy” F-15 and “light” F-16, we mean a highly capable but very expensive ...