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The MBT-70 Tank Was Built to Fight the Soviet Union. It Ended Up a Historical Footnote Recent reports about Europe’s flagging next-generation fighter programs...
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The YF-23 Stealth Fighter Was Almost Flown By Japan The YF-22 versus the YF-23 stealth fighter jet fly-off was one for the ages. The...
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The Iran War Kharg Island Invasion Challenge: Why U.S. Troop Deployments Are Just Political Posturing The news media are largely pearl-clutching about the results...
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A B-52 Stratofortress Bomber Did the Unthinkable: Lost A Load of Nuclear Weapons Unsurprisingly, the premise of lost, missing, or stolen weapons of mass...
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The U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet Is No Stealth Fighter, and Iran Could Take It Down Aerial combat is always risky. Over the skies...
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Supercarrier Paradox: Why the Iran War Doesn’t Prove if the Aircraft Carrier Is the New ‘Battleship’
The survival of a U.S. Carrier Strike Group (CSG) is not determined by a single weapon, but by the adversary's ability to maintain a...
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Summary and Key Points: Defense analyst Brent M. Eastwood, PhD, evaluates reports that researchers at the China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center have identified...
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Summary and Key Points: Defense expert Brent M. Eastwood, PhD, evaluates the persistent threat of Iranian mobile missile launchers and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)...
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The U.S. Navy is caught between the physical limits of 1980s-era nuclear reactors and the 2026 requirement for overwhelming conventional fire. If the USS...