Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The B-58 Hustler was the world’s first operational Mach 2 bomber, built when the Air Force believed speed and...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Conceived at the end of World War II and commissioned just after it, the Midway-class—Midway, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Ohio-class SSGNs were a post–Cold War judo move: convert four surplus ballistic-missile submarines into covert cruise-missile and special-operations...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – A July walk around the B-36J at the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton drives home why America built...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The SR-71 Blackbird delivered unmatched Mach-3 recon, but its costs proved fatal. -Each flight hour ran $200,000–$300,000, driven by...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Ukraine’s war has chewed through Soviet-era T-72 tanks on both sides, with visually confirmed losses in the hundreds. -The...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Ryan X-13 Vertijet was the Air Force’s 1950s answer to runway vulnerability: a tail-sitting jet that hovered on...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The MBT-70 was a U.S.–West German attempt to leapfrog Soviet armor with a tank packed with firsts: a 152...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The XB-70 Valkyrie was the U.S. Air Force’s bid to outrun Soviet defenses: a six-engine, compression-lift bomber built for...