Norman Polmar

In the century following the Wright brothers' historic 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, thousands of military aircraft have been designed and hundreds of thousands have been produced. From that massive aeronautic pantheon, two well-known aviation historians have selected the one hundred most significant military aircraft for this centennial tribute. From the U.S. Army's purchase of the world's first military aircraft from the Wright Brothers...

Almost from the first days of seafaring, men have used ships for "spying" and intelligence collection. Since early in the twentieth century, with the technological advancements of radio and radar, the U.S. Navy and other government agencies and many other navies have used increasingly specialized ships and submarines to ferret out the secrets of other nations. The United States and the Soviet Union/Russia have been the leaders in those efforts, especially...