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Britain’s Global Combat Air Program faces a 10-week funding deadline. The current bridge funding for GCAP — the 6th-generation stealth fighter shared with Italy...
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The Lockheed D-21 was a Mach 3.3 reconnaissance drone. Lockheed’s Skunk Works built it in the early 1960s. Its mission: photograph China’s Lop Nor...
Ukraine War
The Institute for the Study of War reports Russia has lost substantial territory in Ukraine for the first time since the summer of 2024....
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The Yakovlev Yak-141 was the world’s first supersonic VTOL aircraft. The Soviet Union built four prototypes between 1987 and 1991. It was designed to...
Dollars and Sense
The Strait of Hormuz has been effectively closed for over two months due to the Iran war. The damage is spreading well beyond oil...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On March 6, 1990, U.S. Air Force pilot Lt. Col. Ed Yielding and Reconnaissance Systems Officer Joseph Vida flew an SR-71 Blackbird on its...
Dollars and Sense
The F-35 Lightning II operates as a “flying computer.” It senses, gathers, and securely transmits critical battlefield data across multinational combat formations. All of...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On March 27, 1999, during NATO’s Operation Allied Force, Serbian air defenses shot down a U.S. Air Force F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter over Yugoslavia....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s latest proposal to end the U.S.-Iran war. Tehran’s demands include U.S. war reparations, full Iranian sovereignty over the Strait...