Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter entered service with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force in March 2017, and by 2025 the PLAAF had built...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1984, an SR-71 Blackbird operating at 83,000 feet and Mach 3 over the Soviet Union suffered a sudden engine unstart that yawed the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
NASA’s X-43D was designed to fly at speeds approaching Mach 15 — roughly 11,000 miles per hour — using a hydrogen-fueled scramjet to sustain...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On October 3, 1967, U.S. Air Force pilot William “Pete” Knight flew the X-15A-2 to 4,520 miles per hour — Mach 6.7 — setting...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia’s Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, reportedly capable of traveling at more than Mach 20 while maneuvering laterally and vertically through the atmosphere, was placed...
Dollars and Sense
Russian geological surveys aboard the research vessel Akademik Alexander Karpinsky have mapped sedimentary formations beneath Antarctica’s Weddell Sea that could hold roughly 511 billion...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In April 1962, Lockheed Skunk Works flew an A-12 Oxcart spy plane that required an entirely new American titanium industry just to manufacture and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In the late 1950s, the U.S. spent $800 million building a Mach 3.1 strategic bomber that could cruise above 70,000 feet and outrun every...
Dollars and Sense
Israel just doubled its F-35I Adir stealth fighter fleet to 100 and ordered 50 Boeing F-15IA strike fighters — part of a $119 billion...