Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In the early 2000s, NASA was among the first to achieve sustained hypersonic flight. As part of the broader Hyper-X program, NASA developed the...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Before the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II became the most-produced stealth fighter in history, it had to beat Boeing’s X-32 in the Joint Strike...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia’s MiG 1.44 was developed by Mikoyan in the 1980s and 1990s as the Soviet Union’s answer to the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Tactical...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On May 1, 2013, Boeing’s X-51A Waverider was dropped from a B-52 Stratofortress over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated to Mach 4.8 by a rocket...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Decades before Operation Epic Fury, the United States and Iran fought a one-day naval battle in the Persian Gulf that ended with nine Iranian...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On July 4, 1974, the CIA dropped a giant mechanical claw nicknamed “Clementine” three miles to the floor of the Pacific Ocean to lift...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China has reportedly test-fired its YJ-20 hypersonic anti-ship missile from a Type 055 destroyer, with leaked footage emerging in December and the South China...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On October 3, 1967, U.S. Air Force pilot William “Pete” Knight flew the X-15A-2 to 4,520 miles per hour — Mach 6.7 — setting...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has been publicly discussing the SR-72 “Son of Blackbird” — a hypersonic reconnaissance and strike aircraft designed to fly at...