Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy has transformed the troubled Zumwalt-class destroyer from an $8 billion failed land-attack ship into a stealthy hypersonic strike platform capable of...
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Russia’s Admiral Nakhimov—the massive Kirov-class nuclear-powered battlecruiser originally designed to hunt American aircraft carriers during the Cold War—is finally undergoing sea trials after a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Grumman F-14 Tomcat earned its dramatic combat reputation flying for Iran, not America. The United States sold 78 F-14s to Iran during the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The YF-23, known as the Black Widow II, remains one of the most intriguing “what ifs” in US aviation history and continues to fascinate...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy nearly built its own version of the legendary F-22 Raptor stealth fighter—a swept-wing carrier variant called the NATF-22 Sea Raptor that...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Imperial Japan’s Yamato-class battleships were the biggest battleships ever built—massive 72,000-ton beasts armed with the largest naval guns ever mounted on a warship, capable...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Spruance-class destroyer was as large as a World War II cruiser—but Congress nearly killed the program because lawmakers thought the ship didn’t look...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Greece is preparing to leapfrog Turkey in a qualitative arms race that has been simmering for decades. By 2030, the Hellenic Air Force expects...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy is now the world’s largest by hull count—and Beijing’s shipbuilding capacity is reportedly 230 times that of the United...