Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
German Eurofighter Typhoon pilots “shot down” several F-22 Raptors during the 2012 Red Flag Alaska exercises. The F-22 Raptor was still relatively new at...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia just made the call to retire the Admiral Kuznetsov—the country’s lone aircraft carrier and one of the most embarrassing warships in modern naval...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On January 25, 1966, Lockheed test pilot Bill Weaver became the first man in history to survive a supersonic parachute ejection from an SR-71...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The legendary F-14 Tomcat shot down five enemy aircraft during its 32-year career—and never lost a single Tomcat to enemy fighters in air-to-air combat....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In the first four weeks of the U.S.-Iran war alone, American forces fired more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles—a staggering expenditure rate that triggered...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On April 21, 1989, an SR-71 Blackbird nicknamed “Ichiban” was racing past Mach 3 over the Pacific when its left compressor bearing suddenly froze,...
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
The D-21B was the SR-71 Blackbird’s little brother—a Mach 3 spy drone built by Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Works division to fly reconnaissance missions over...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s mysterious Chengdu J-36 sixth-generation combat aircraft is far larger than any traditional fighter—measuring roughly 75 feet long with three engines, no tail, and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Newly published satellite imagery shows China testing multiple large stealth flying-wing drones at a secretive military site. The images, taken on March 26, 2026,...