Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s emerging 6th-generation stealth aircraft, designated J-36, has now appeared in public photography twice. The first set of images surfaced on Chinese social media...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Between its maiden flight in 1964 and its retirement in 1999, the U.S. Air Force lost 12 of its Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52G strategic bomber from Seymour Johnson AFB in North Carolina — flying Operation Chrome Dome, a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1981, General Dynamics began flight testing the F-16XL — a radical “cranked-arrow” delta-wing variant of the F-16 Fighting Falcon with approximately twice the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
At the Air & Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium in February 2026, Lockheed Martin publicly displayed a production-representative scale model of what it informally...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On May 6, 2025, the U.S. Air Force conducted one of the largest elephant walks seen at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa in recent...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Three Key Points: During Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. military demonstrated heavy reliance on its B-2 Spirit stealth bomber fleet — flying...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Three Key Points: On March 28, 2026, the 13th Fighter Squadron’s F-35A Lightning II aircraft arrived at Misawa Air Base in northern...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In the early 1980s, Lockheed’s Skunk Works proposed converting the SR-71 Blackbird — the Mach 3+ reconnaissance aircraft that flew above 80,000 feet and...