Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Convair built 116 B-58 Hustlers — the first U.S. operational supersonic bomber, capable of Mach 2 on four General Electric J79 afterburning turbojets. The...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark was widely panned as a Pentagon failure—a Robert McNamara-era boondoggle that the U.S. Navy outright rejected and the Air...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia just made the call to retire the Admiral Kuznetsov—the country’s lone aircraft carrier and one of the most embarrassing warships in modern naval...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On January 25, 1966, Lockheed test pilot Bill Weaver became the first man in history to survive a supersonic parachute ejection from an SR-71...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The legendary F-14 Tomcat shot down five enemy aircraft during its 32-year career—and never lost a single Tomcat to enemy fighters in air-to-air combat....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On April 21, 1989, an SR-71 Blackbird nicknamed “Ichiban” was racing past Mach 3 over the Pacific when its left compressor bearing suddenly froze,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The D-21B was the SR-71 Blackbird’s little brother—a Mach 3 spy drone built by Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Works division to fly reconnaissance missions over...
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China claims it has developed two new submarine-detection technologies that could threaten the U.S. Navy’s most advanced underwater fleet. A drone-mounted quantum magnetic sensor...