Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Naval aviators are more stressed by night landings on an aircraft carrier than by combat. Physiological studies show higher heart rates and blood pressure...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Captain John Monroe Hawk Smith was the executive officer of the U.S. Navy’s TOPGUN program — and one of the most lethal air-to-air aviators...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On December 29, 2011, a Russian Delta IV submarine called the Yekaterinburg caught fire in the PD-50 dry dock at Roslyakovo, near Severomorsk in...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In November 2009, an Emirati pilot flying a French-built Mirage 2000 notionally shot down a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor during a joint wargame...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Fire remains the most dangerous threat to a U.S. aircraft carrier — and the U.S. Navy’s newest, the USS Gerald R. Ford, just proved...
Dollars and Sense
There is no F-35 Lightning II kill switch — the Joint Program Office and Lockheed Martin have both said so directly. But the rumor...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Lockheed Martin’s $11 billion F-22 Raptor 2.0 upgrade adds stealth-compatible conformal external fuel tanks and infrared search and track pods on the outer wings...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Marine Corps Lieutenant General Stephen Sklenka, the Deputy Commandant for Installations and Logistics, told the Modern Day Marine Expo in late April that China...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy took delivery of its 25th Virginia-class fast-attack submarine — the USS Massachusetts (SSN-798) — in November 2025. The seventh Block IV...