Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On April 7, 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato — the largest battleship ever built, displacing nearly 72,000 long tons and armed with...
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Paramount Pictures formally confirmed Top Gun 3 at CinemaCon in April 2026, with Tom Cruise officially returning, Jerry Bruckheimer back as producer, and Ehren...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Northrop’s Tacit Blue stealth research demonstrator made its first flight from Groom Lake — better known as Area 51 — in 1982, eventually making...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter entered service with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force in March 2017, and by 2025 the PLAAF had built...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1999, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works designed the X-44 Manta — a “Multi-Axis, No Tail Aircraft” built on the F-22 Raptor fuselage with a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1984, an SR-71 Blackbird operating at 83,000 feet and Mach 3 over the Soviet Union suffered a sudden engine unstart that yawed the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In March 2025, President Donald Trump and U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin announced that Boeing had won a $20 billion...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
NASA’s X-43D was designed to fly at speeds approaching Mach 15 — roughly 11,000 miles per hour — using a hydrogen-fueled scramjet to sustain...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In the early 2000s, NASA was among the first to achieve sustained hypersonic flight. As part of the broader Hyper-X program, NASA developed the...