What If The U.S. Navy Had Built The A-12 Avenger II? The Flying Dorito And The Aircraft Carrier Fleet America Would Have Today

What If The U.S. Navy Had Built The A-12 Avenger II? The Flying Dorito And The Aircraft Carrier Fleet America Would Have Today

On January 7, 1991, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney canceled the A-12 Avenger II, the stealth flying wing that was supposed to replace the A-6 Intruder on every American aircraft carrier deck. Ten days later, Desert Storm opened with F-117s threading Baghdad’s air defenses untouched, demonstrating to the world exactly the capability the Navy had just lost. The cancellation was the largest contract termination in Pentagon history at the time; it…