Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – While the US Air Force is advancing its Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program with fighter-like drones (“robo-gnats” such as YFQ-42A/YFQ-44A) intended...
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While the SR-71 Blackbird gets all the press, the rocket-powered X-15 has its own richly deserved place in the aviation history record books: on ...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – After losing the F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) contract, Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet proposed a “Ferrari F-35″—a “fifth-generation plus”...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The Northrop F-89 Scorpion, the US Air Force’s first jet-powered interceptor and the first combat aircraft armed with air-to-air nuclear weapons...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points –The F-35 Lightning II’s combat radius of approximately 670 nautical miles, while not critically short, is increasingly viewed as a limitation, especially...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – A recent Chinese study by defense experts, including PLA Air Force Early Warning Academy researcher Wang Bingqie, surprisingly identifies the 70-year-old...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The B-2 Stealth Bomber: A Powerful Strategic Platform that the Cold War Killed – Designed to penetrate even the most heavily guarded airspace and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Meet the Su-57M – The Su-57 Felon is Russia’s first serious effort to produce a fifth-generation stealth fighter jet. The Felon recently took another...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The US Air Force’s B-52J Radar Modernization Program (RMP), crucial for keeping the bomber viable into the 2050s, has triggered a...