Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The MiG-25 Foxbat arrived in 1970 wrapped in fear and secrecy, sold as a Soviet air-defense monster built to sprint...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The X-44 MANTA was envisioned as a radical, tailless derivative of the F-22—stripping away vertical and horizontal tails to cut...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Russia argues its S-400—and especially the newer S-500—can detect and defeat stealth aircraft, but the more important question is whether...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Dassault’s Rafale F5 is framed as a “super Rafale,” pairing upgraded sensors, networking, electronic warfare, and weapons integration to keep...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The F-16XL remains one of American aviation’s great “what-ifs”—a stretched F-16 with a distinctive cranked-arrow wing built as a low-risk,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s J-20 “Mighty Dragon”: The Stealth Fighter Built for a Taiwan Fight Summary and Key Points: China’s J-20 “Mighty Dragon” is Beijing’s flagship fifth-generation...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
F-4 Phantom: The Mach 2.2 Jet That Defined Cold War Airpower Summary and Key Points – The F-4 Phantom II emerged from the U.S....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Synopsis: Lockheed Martin is pitching a “fifth-generation-plus” F-35 that borrows technologies developed during its sixth-generation NGAD work, an effort CEO Jim Taiclet has likened...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Synopsis: The Mikoyan MiG-41 (PAK DP) remains Russia’s most ambitious “paper plane,” aiming to replace the aging MiG-31. -Billed as a 6th-generation interceptor, it...