Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Most commentary from Washington this month treats the Lebanon problem as a matter of persuasion. Lean on Israel hard enough, dangle a broad enough...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Boeing X-32 was a stealth fighter that flew 66 times, hit Mach 1.6, and carried 20,000 pounds of internal fuel—a serious contender to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy’s aircraft carrier may be following the historical path of the battleship—once dominant, eventually outflanked by new weapons and technologies. China’s investment...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 2015, China shocked the defense world by signing a $2.5 billion deal to buy 24 Russian Su-35 fighters from Moscow—the first foreign customer...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia unveiled the Su-75 Checkmate stealth fighter in 2021 as a low-cost, single-engine alternative to America’s F-35—pricing it at $25-30 million, compared with the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy decommissioned the USS America supercarrier in 1996—then deliberately tried to sink her in 2005 off Cape Hatteras as part of a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Dassault Rafale is unlike any other Western fighter—it can carry nuclear cruise missiles, ramjet-powered Meteor missiles with the largest “no-escape zone” of any...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China claims it has developed two new submarine-detection technologies that could threaten the U.S. Navy’s most advanced underwater fleet. A drone-mounted quantum magnetic sensor...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China is on track to operate roughly 1,000 J-20 stealth fighters by 2030—a number that would nearly triple American fifth-generation fighter production. While the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Air Force once imagined a stealth bomber based on the legendary F-22 Raptor—the FB-22 “Strike Raptor” that would have featured 27 hardpoints,...