The XF-108 Rapier was designed to stop Soviet nuclear bombers before they could reach American airspace, using Mach 3 speed, ...
At the outset of the Cold War, American strategic planners obsessed over the threat posed by the Soviet Union’s long-range, strategic bombers. Characterized by very long range and capable of ...
The aerospace firm North American Aviation designed the XF-108 as a long-range interceptor. Its primary mission would have been to intercept Soviet strategic bombers that were en route to the United ...