Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China or Iran doesn’t need to sink U.S. Navy aircraft carriers to neutralize them — they just need to light them on fire. A...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Turns out the United States Air Force’s AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) isn’t dead after all. Supposedly, the Air Force abandoned the AGM-183A...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In May 1989, Soviet Air Force Captain Alexander Zuyev defected to NATO by stealing a Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jet. Zuyev was an elite...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was the United States’ most advanced Cold War spy plane. It was designed to fly over Soviet airspace at Mach...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Lockheed D-21 was a Mach 3.3 reconnaissance drone. Lockheed’s Skunk Works built it in the early 1960s. Its mission: photograph China’s Lop Nor...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On March 6, 1990, U.S. Air Force pilot Lt. Col. Ed Yielding and Reconnaissance Systems Officer Joseph Vida flew an SR-71 Blackbird on its...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In the early 1980s, Lockheed’s Skunk Works proposed converting the SR-71 Blackbird — the Mach 3+ reconnaissance aircraft that flew above 80,000 feet and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On May 1, 2013, Boeing’s X-51A Waverider was dropped from a B-52 Stratofortress over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated to Mach 4.8 by a rocket...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has been publicly discussing the SR-72 “Son of Blackbird” — a hypersonic reconnaissance and strike aircraft designed to fly at...