“I do not want a bail out,” Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams remembered Dick Cheney saying this when the A-12 Avenger II went way wrong. The U.S. Navy took a lesson in what can in a single line make ...

Key Points and Summary - Born to replace the A-6, the A-12 Avenger II promised a stealth, carrier-based strike jet with internal weapons and composite skins. -Carrier robustness and low-observable ...