Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – With an announcement on the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX 6th-gen fighter imminent, an inside look reveals a surprising backstory. -The...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Su-75 Checkmate is being crowded out by war economics and operational reality. -Russia’s defense industry is focused on...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Desert Storm began with overwhelming coalition airpower—but not without loss. Guided by ground controllers, Iraqi pilot Zuhair Dawoud in...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – RIMPAC 2024’s SINKEX of ex-USS Tarawa marked LRASM’s coming-of-age: a carrier-launched, stealth cruise missile autonomously found and struck a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-35 is the planet’s best fighter precisely because it is more than a fighter: a stealthy, fused-sensor “quarterback”...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Boeing’s “Bird of Prey”—often tagged YF-118G—was a 1990s stealth technology demonstrator that traded speed and weapons for learning. -Built...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Navy is poised to name a winner for F/A-XX, its sixth-generation carrier fighter, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Greece is buying 20 F-35s (Lot-20) for about $8.6 billion, with deliveries targeted from 2028, to complement its F-16V...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Lockheed’s SR-71 was designed to be untouchable—fast, high, and hard to see. Over the Baltic, however, Sweden’s Saab JA-37...