Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The idea of a massive, Vietnam-era bomber surging 100 years into the future, retaining sustained relevance and effectiveness, might bewilder the masses in the...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The People’s Republic of China’s Chengdu J-20 fifth-generation stealth fighter may outrange the United States Air Force’s F-22 Raptor and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark was widely panned as a Pentagon failure—a Robert McNamara-era boondoggle that the U.S. Navy outright rejected and the Air...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The F-16 Fighting Falcon was originally designed as a humble daytime air superiority fighter—a lightweight dogfighter built around lessons from Vietnam, where heavier U.S....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The legendary SR-71 Blackbird that broke every aviation record almost never got built. In the early 1960s, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara repeatedly questioned...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1991, Dick Cheney pulled the plug on a triangular flying-wing stealth bomber that the U.S. Navy had spent $5 billion developing—an aircraft so...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
F-47 NGAD U.S. Air Force Fighter Will Be a True Game Changer Like Nothing That Has Ever Flown An intriguing, mysterious, and reportedly extremely...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
B-1B Spotted Carrying ARRW Hypersonic Missile: The U.S. Air Force has publicly released imagery for the first time showing a B-1B Lancer carrying an...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Air Force’s decision to deploy F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to the Philippines for Exercise Cope Thunder 26-1 has been described in different...