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In 1997, the U.S. military quietly purchased 21 Soviet MiG-29 fighters from the tiny Eastern European country of Moldova—not from Russia, but from a...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 2015, China shocked the defense world by signing a $2.5 billion deal to buy 24 Russian Su-35 fighters from Moscow—the first foreign customer...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Dassault Rafale is unlike any other Western fighter—it can carry nuclear cruise missiles, ramjet-powered Meteor missiles with the largest “no-escape zone” of any...
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 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
The Boeing F-15EX Eagle II is the world’s fastest fighter jet at Mach 2.5—and it can carry an absolutely staggering 29,500 pounds of weapons...
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
F-47 NGAD U.S. Air Force Fighter Will Be a True Game Changer Like Nothing That Has Ever Flown An intriguing, mysterious, and reportedly extremely...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Back last December, MBDA and Lockheed Martin, the U.S. prime contractor for the F-35 Lightning II fifth-generation stealth fighter, “completed a series of critical...