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How variable sweep wings solved problems fixed wings couldn’t

The variable sweep wing was a groundbreaking approach that allowed aircraft to adapt their shape to different phases of ...
The National Interest

America’s Best Cold War Jets All Had One Design Feature

But the variable-sweep wing design seems to have gone out of fashion most recently. As the name suggests, “variable-sweep” wings are aircraft wings that can be adjusted to different degrees of ...
The Aviationist

Rockwell B-1 Lancer

The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing strategic bomber developed by Rockwell International and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF). Alongside its subsonic stablemates, ...
The Aviationist

Panavia Tornado

The Panavia Tornado is a multinational European supersonic twin-engined multirole combat aircraft, manufactured by Panavia Aircraft GmbH. Designed with a distinctive swing-wing (variable-sweep wing) ...
The National Interest

The MiG-23 Flogger Was Russia’s Big Fighter Jet Failure

Summary and 4 Points You Need to Know: The MiG-23 “Flogger” was the Soviet response to the American F-4 Phantom II, developed in the 1960s to replace the aging MiG-21. -Featuring a variable-wing sweep ...