Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The USS Iowa was the lead ship of the last battleship class America ever built—a 45,000-ton beast that fought through WWII, Korea, the Cold...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The legendary SR-71 Blackbird that broke every aviation record almost never got built. In the early 1960s, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara repeatedly questioned...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The USS Gerald R. Ford supercarrier just wrapped up a near-record deployment from Venezuela to the Middle East—and now needs major modifications before it...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s first Type 095 Sui-class nuclear-powered attack submarine has just been spotted preparing for sea trials at the Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Company shipyard...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia’s nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov finally put to sea for trials in 2025—after spending more than 25 years laid up in port at...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Greece is preparing to leapfrog Turkey in a qualitative arms race that has been simmering for decades. By 2030, the Hellenic Air Force expects...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy’s legendary F-14 Tomcat was actually designed from the very beginning to drop bombs—it just took the Navy decades to actually use...
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In 1997, the U.S. military quietly purchased 21 Soviet MiG-29 fighters from the tiny Eastern European country of Moldova—not from Russia, but from a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Japan’s Taigei-class submarine—the “Big Whale”—is the first submarine class designed entirely around lithium-ion batteries, abandoning traditional Air-Independent Propulsion altogether. At just $700 million per...