Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
At 10:50 a.m. on July 29, 1967, a Zuni rocket misfired in its launcher aboard the USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin, igniting...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1983, Northrop unveiled a Mach 2.1 fighter that cost $9 million — one quarter the price of an F-14 Tomcat — built on...
The Treaty
Three U.S. destroyers came under Iranian missile, drone, and small-craft attack Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz — day 69 of a war the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In the mid-1960s, Lockheed’s Mach 3 YF-12 and North American Aviation’s Mach 3 XB-70 Valkyrie were both flying test missions out of Edwards Air...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In April 1962, Lockheed Skunk Works flew an A-12 Oxcart spy plane that required an entirely new American titanium industry just to manufacture and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1982, Northrop quietly flew a stealth aircraft so radar-invisible the U.S. Air Force later said its radar cross-section was smaller than a bat’s....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s own computer simulations show that a single J-20 Mighty Dragon has less than a 10% chance of defeating an F-22 Raptor in combat....
Dollars and Sense
Lockheed Martin Just Won an $11.4 Million Contract to Upgrade Israel’s F-35I Adir — Funded by Israel
In March, an Israeli F-35I Adir shot down an Iranian Yak-130 over Tehran — the first time an F-35 stealth fighter ever destroyed another...
Dollars and Sense
A peanut allergy will now disqualify you from joining the U.S. Military. So will diabetes, sickle cell disease, an active cancer, a pacemaker, or...