Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Lockheed S-3 Viking was the only purpose-built, carrier-based, jet-powered submarine hunter the U.S. Navy ever flew. From 1974 to 2009, 188 of these...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Conceived in 1999, Lockheed Martin’s X-44 MANTA proposed a tailless, stretched-delta derivative of the F-22 that ditched vertical and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – China’s PLAN announced its first at-sea EM catapult launches and arrested landings from the Type 003 carrier Fujian, using...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Lockheed Martin is pushing to expand F-22 modernization to include 35 older Block 20 trainers—saving them from scrapping—and to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s Su-35 is a non-stealth supermaneuverable evolution of the Su-27, packing powerful sensors (Irbis-E PESA, IRST), thrust-vectoring and long...
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 – At the AFA Air, Space & Cyber Conference, USAF Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin revealed Boeing’s first...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Dassault’s Super Étendard is a compact, carrier-born strike fighter that punched far above its weight. -Its global coming-out was...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – After Russian MiG-31s violated Estonian airspace for 12 minutes, NATO scrambled Italian F-35s and Tallinn invoked Article 4. -Czech...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Retiring USAF Chief Gen. David Allvin says Boeing has begun building the first F-47—the Air Force’s sixth-generation NGAD fighter—with...