The Avenger That Couldn't Avenge

摘要

A leading aviation journal stated: "The A-12 attack bomber is emerging as the most important U.S. Navy aircraft programme of the present decade and seems likely to be the last all-new type to enter service with the Navy this century." But as the magazine was coming off the press, on 7 January 1991, Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney ceased funding the A-12 Avenger program--the largest project termination in U.S. Defense Department history.