Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The US Air Force has cut its F-35 procurement request for the fiscal year 2026 budget in half, asking for 24...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The Su-35 Flanker-E is arguably one of the greatest fighters in use by the Russian Air Force. The aircraft builds upon...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The Boeing F-15EX Eagle II offers significant value for the US Air Force, primarily because its development benefited from $5 billion...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – Despite US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recent strong statement at the Shangri-La Dialogue (May 31st) that the US would “fight and...
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...