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What It Took To Fly The SR-71 Blackbird, And All The Ways It Could Kill You: Only 93 Air Force pilots ever flew the...
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Russia’s Sukhoi Su-37 Terminator was Moscow’s answer to American stealth fighters like the F-22 Raptor. Built on a modified Su-27M airframe with Saturn AL-31FP...
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The world’s most expensive warship came home Saturday. And as one retired U.S. Navy commanding officer told me yesterday: “No one knows when she...
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France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is steaming through the Red Sea right now, anchoring a French-led coalition trying to reopen the Strait...
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The U.S. Navy is retiring every single Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser by 2029 — and with them, more than 1,200 missile launch cells the surface...
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Summary and Key Points: An interview with Lionel “Stormy” Boudreaux — one of only 12 pilots who ever flew operational sorties in both the...
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On April 15, 1986, during Operation El Dorado Canyon, Maj. Brian Shul and RSO Maj. Walter Watson flew SR-71 #64-17960 over Libya on a...
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In April 1989, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-278 Komsomolets caught fire in its engineering compartment during a routine patrol off Norway’s Bear Island. The...
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U.S. officials estimate China intends to operate nine aircraft carriers by 2035 — a tripling of its current three-ship fleet in just a decade....
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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...