Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Air Force was preparing to retire the B-1B Lancer when Operation Epic Fury began on February 28 — and the Cold War-era...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In April 1962, Lockheed Skunk Works flew an A-12 Oxcart spy plane that required an entirely new American titanium industry just to manufacture and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1982, Northrop quietly flew a stealth aircraft so radar-invisible the U.S. Air Force later said its radar cross-section was smaller than a bat’s....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 2005, a Swedish Saab-built Gotland-class diesel-electric submarine slipped past an entire U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group during joint naval drills — undetected....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In the late 1950s, the U.S. spent $800 million building a Mach 3.1 strategic bomber that could cruise above 70,000 feet and outrun every...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s own computer simulations show that a single J-20 Mighty Dragon has less than a 10% chance of defeating an F-22 Raptor in combat....
Dollars and Sense
Lockheed Martin Just Won an $11.4 Million Contract to Upgrade Israel’s F-35I Adir — Funded by Israel
In March, an Israeli F-35I Adir shot down an Iranian Yak-130 over Tehran — the first time an F-35 stealth fighter ever destroyed another...
Dollars and Sense
A peanut allergy will now disqualify you from joining the U.S. Military. So will diabetes, sickle cell disease, an active cancer, a pacemaker, or...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In June 1986, six Soviet MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors tried to trap a single American SR-71 Blackbird over the Barents Sea. The Soviet pilots had...