Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On March 27, 1999, during NATO’s Operation Allied Force, Serbian air defenses shot down a U.S. Air Force F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter over Yugoslavia....
Hi, what are you looking for?
National Security Journal
All posts tagged "Fighters"
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s emerging 6th-generation stealth aircraft, designated J-36, has now appeared in public photography twice. The first set of images surfaced on Chinese social media...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1981, General Dynamics began flight testing the F-16XL — a radical “cranked-arrow” delta-wing variant of the F-16 Fighting Falcon with approximately twice the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
At the Air & Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium in February 2026, Lockheed Martin publicly displayed a production-representative scale model of what it informally...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On May 6, 2025, the U.S. Air Force conducted one of the largest elephant walks seen at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa in recent...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Three Key Points: On March 28, 2026, the 13th Fighter Squadron’s F-35A Lightning II aircraft arrived at Misawa Air Base in northern...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 2024, a research team led by Professor Zhang Dong at China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University — one of China’s premier military-aerospace research institutions —...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In a 2012 Red Flag exercise at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, two German Eurofighter Typhoons claimed notional “kills” against U.S. Air Force...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s Chengdu J-20 Mighty Dragon entered service in the mid-2010s as China’s first operational stealth fighter — but for years its weakest component was...