Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary: The U.S. Air Force is preparing to install a shoebox-sized navigation system on its F-22 Raptors that will allow the...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The F-16 Fighting Falcon was originally designed as a humble daytime air superiority fighter—a lightweight dogfighter built around lessons from Vietnam, where heavier U.S....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s J-36 and J-50 stealth aircraft prototypes have sparked speculation that Beijing is winning the sixth-generation airpower race. The truth is the U.S. Air...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China is on track to operate roughly 1,000 J-20 stealth fighters by 2030—a number that would nearly triple American fifth-generation fighter production. While the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Air Force once imagined a stealth bomber based on the legendary F-22 Raptor—the FB-22 “Strike Raptor” that would have featured 27 hardpoints,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The X-32 was an experimental demonstrator aircraft built by Boeing to compete in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition. We have spent a lot...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
“I could not believe it. I knew at that moment the U.S. Air Force had a problem on its hands that we could never...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia’s MiG-35 Fulcrum-F was supposed to be the bridge fighter that carried Moscow’s air force into the stealth era—a Mach 2.25 multi-role workhorse with...
Dollars and Sense
In 1998, Congressman David Obey introduced a single-page amendment that quietly prevented America’s most advanced stealth fighter—the F-22 Raptor—from ever being exported abroad. Japan...