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Summary and Key Points: For the first time in history, all 22 National Guard generals who command America’s Air National Guard fighter squadrons have...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: When two American pilots ejected from their F-15Es over Iran and were pulled to safety, they survived something most people...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: It first took off when Harry Truman was in the White House. It will still be flying combat missions in...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
As the United States Air Force prepares to accept its newest jet, the F-47, into service, the reaction from America’s principal geopolitical adversary toward...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The Soviet MiG-23 Flogger was Moscow’s first swing-wing fighter, built in the late 1960s to rival the American F-4 Phantom....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: In June 2025’s Operation Midnight Hammer, seven B-2 stealth bombers flew a 36-hour, 12,000-mile round trip from Missouri to strike...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Years before the famous SR-71 Blackbird, the CIA built the A-12 Oxcart — a top-secret Mach 3 spy plane designed...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Boeing once floated one of the era’s wildest aircraft concepts: the B-1R, a version of the B-1 Lancer bomber reimagined...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Northrop’s F-89 Scorpion holds two firsts: it was the first purpose-built jet interceptor in U.S. service and the first warplane...