Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy’s new Trump-class BBG(X) nuclear-powered battleship will cost roughly $17 billion per hull and displace between 30,000 and 40,000 tons, making it...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On September 26, 1983, Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov was on the midnight shift at the Serpukhov-15 command center when his early warning satellite...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
France Built Saddam Hussein A Nuclear Reactor — Israel Destroyed It in A 90-Second Airstrike In 1981
On June 7, 1981, Israel launched Operation Opera. Eight F-16s and six F-15s flew more than 1,000 kilometers at low altitude across Jordan, Saudi...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Pentagon plans to procure 10,000 low-cost cruise missiles and 12,000 hypersonic missiles between 2027 and 2029 — a wartime-style scaling effort driven by...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s missile arsenal now reaches every U.S. base in the Pacific. The DF-26, dubbed the Guam-Killer by U.S. analysts, is a conventionally armed intermediate-range...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Pentagon is dramatically expanding its missile procurement strategy as planners increasingly warn that future wars against countries like China could rapidly exhaust America’s...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947 in the rocket-powered Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis. Three years earlier, a British Supermarine Spitfire Mark XI...
Dollars and Sense
More than 300 years after the 150-foot-long Spanish galleon San José came to a grisly end off the coast of Colombia, the world’s most...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The XM2001 Crusader was supposed to become the U.S. Army’s next-generation artillery system: a heavily automated 155mm self-propelled howitzer capable of firing faster, farther,...