Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s Chengdu J-20 Mighty Dragon entered service in the mid-2010s as China’s first operational stealth fighter — but for years its weakest component was...
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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 —...
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
Before the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II became the most-produced stealth fighter in history, it had to beat Boeing’s X-32 in the Joint Strike...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On July 4, 1974, the CIA dropped a giant mechanical claw nicknamed “Clementine” three miles to the floor of the Pacific Ocean to lift...
Dollars and Sense
Iran has functionally closed the Strait of Hormuz during Operation Epic Fury, halting roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply and triggering an immediate...
Dollars and Sense
The F-47 stealth fighter will have a 1,000-mile combat radius — nearly double that of the F-22 — and is built for the Indo-Pacific....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy quietly revived its Mach 7 railgun at the White Sands Missile Range in 2026 — five years after the Pentagon killed...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is concluding a 317-day deployment, marking the longest carrier deployment in the post-Vietnam era. The original plan was...