Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Born in the late 1970s to counter F-15s and F-16s, the MiG-29 paired agile aerodynamics (LERX, twin tails) and...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Boeing’s X-40A was a subscale, unpowered Space Maneuver Vehicle built to retire the riskiest part of a reusable spaceplane...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – America built the X-15 to get flight data in the unknown between airplanes and spacecraft. -The rocket-powered, Inconel-X research...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Kitty Hawk-class—USS Kitty Hawk, Constellation, and America—were the Cold War’s quintessential conventional supercarriers. -Built to generate more sorties...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Commissioned in 1961, USS Long Beach (CGN-9) was the first nuclear-powered surface combatant—part fleet shield, part technology demonstrator. -Conceived...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Conceived in 1940 as the apex of American battleship design, the Montana-class traded the Iowas’ speed for thicker armor...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – In the late 1990s, the U.S. Air Force, NASA, and Lockheed Martin studied the X-44 MANTA—a tailless, delta-winged concept...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Admiral Kuznetsov was the Soviet answer to U.S. carrier power: a heavy, missile-armed STOBAR carrier meant to project fixed-wing...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Grumman’s F9F-8 Cougar was the U.S. Navy’s swept-wing evolution of the Panther—a timely answer to Soviet and MiG-driven realities...