Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In May or June 2024, commercial satellite imagery showed unusual heavy crane barges and pollution-containment booms at the Wuchang Shipyard in Wuhan, China —...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On May 15, 1969, the USS Guitarro (SSN-665), a Sturgeon-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine still under final construction at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, sank...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s Chengdu J-20 Mighty Dragon entered service in the mid-2010s as China’s first operational stealth fighter — but for years its weakest component was...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia’s Mikoyan Project MiG 1.44 was conceived in the late 1980s as the Soviet Union’s answer to the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Tactical Fighter...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The infamous flat spin that kills Goose in the 1986 film Top Gun is a real engine failure mode of the F-14 Tomcat —...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Rockwell International’s B-1A bomber, designed in the early 1970s as a low-altitude supersonic nuclear delivery platform, was cancelled by President Jimmy Carter in 1977...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Northrop’s B-2 Spirit was awarded the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Technology Bomber contract in 1981 and was designed in extreme secrecy to penetrate the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1972, Grumman built a full-scale mock-up of an F-14 Tomcat painted in U.S. Air Force Aerospace Defense Command (ADCOM) markings at its Calverton...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On May 15, 1972, an SR-71 Blackbird called the “Rapid Rabbit” — distinguished from the rest of the fleet by the Playboy Bunny logos...