Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s two-seat J-20S stealth fighter has just transformed from a demonstrator into a “carrier killer” capable of hunting U.S. Navy supercarriers in the First...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary: The U.S. Air Force is preparing to install a shoebox-sized navigation system on its F-22 Raptors that will allow the...
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 USS Iowa was the lead ship of the last battleship class America ever built—a 45,000-ton beast that fought through WWII, Korea, the Cold...
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
The USS Gerald R. Ford supercarrier just wrapped up a near-record deployment from Venezuela to the Middle East—and now needs major modifications before it...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia’s nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov finally put to sea for trials in 2025—after spending more than 25 years laid up in port at...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy’s legendary F-14 Tomcat was actually designed from the very beginning to drop bombs—it just took the Navy decades to actually use...
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In 1997, the U.S. military quietly purchased 21 Soviet MiG-29 fighters from the tiny Eastern European country of Moldova—not from Russia, but from a...