Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The infamous flat spin that kills Goose in the 1986 film Top Gun is a real engine failure mode of the F-14 Tomcat —...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Rockwell International’s B-1A bomber, designed in the early 1970s as a low-altitude supersonic nuclear delivery platform, was cancelled by President Jimmy Carter in 1977...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Northrop’s B-2 Spirit was awarded the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Technology Bomber contract in 1981 and was designed in extreme secrecy to penetrate the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1972, Grumman built a full-scale mock-up of an F-14 Tomcat painted in U.S. Air Force Aerospace Defense Command (ADCOM) markings at its Calverton...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On May 15, 1972, an SR-71 Blackbird called the “Rapid Rabbit” — distinguished from the rest of the fleet by the Playboy Bunny logos...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On April 7, 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato — the largest battleship ever built, displacing nearly 72,000 long tons and armed with...
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Paramount Pictures formally confirmed Top Gun 3 at CinemaCon in April 2026, with Tom Cruise officially returning, Jerry Bruckheimer back as producer, and Ehren...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Northrop’s Tacit Blue stealth research demonstrator made its first flight from Groom Lake — better known as Area 51 — in 1982, eventually making...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter entered service with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force in March 2017, and by 2025 the PLAAF had built...