Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
NASA’s X-43A scramjet aircraft hit Mach 9.64 at 110,000 feet in November 2004—and that record for an air-breathing aircraft still stands more than two...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Boeing F-15EX Eagle II is the world’s fastest fighter jet at Mach 2.5—and it can carry an absolutely staggering 29,500 pounds of weapons...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Soviet Union built its Sierra-class submarines from titanium—a metal so difficult to weld that workers had to wear spacesuits inside hermetically sealed argon-filled...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy is required by law to maintain 11 aircraft carriers—more than the combined fleets of China, the UK, France, India, Spain, and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1991, Dick Cheney pulled the plug on a triangular flying-wing stealth bomber that the U.S. Navy had spent $5 billion developing—an aircraft so...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Back last December, MBDA and Lockheed Martin, the U.S. prime contractor for the F-35 Lightning II fifth-generation stealth fighter, “completed a series of critical...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The T-95 was a Russian experimental fourth-generation main battle tank (MBT) developed by Uralvagonzavod. The T-95 was supposed to revolutionize armored warfare with advanced...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
When the Royal Canadian Air Force announced it was opening a competition to replace its aging CF-18 fighters in 2017, the need was to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
By early 2026, Ukraine received 80 M1A1 Abrams tanks in its fight against the Russian invasion that began in February 2022. The US initially...