Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Japan could abandon the UK-Italy-Japan trilateral Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) for Boeing’s F-47 6th-generation fighter. U.S. President Donald Trump personally pitched an export...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis secretly delivered components of the atomic bomb “Little Boy” to the island of Tinian in July 1945...
Dollars and Sense
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has begun commercial sales of the world’s first large gas engine that can burn up to 30% hydrogen blended with natural...
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
The U.S. Air Force has deployed additional F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to Kadena Air Base in Japan as part of its ongoing effort to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On April 21, 1989, an SR-71 Blackbird nicknamed “Ichiban” was racing past Mach 3 over the Pacific when its left compressor bearing suddenly froze,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Japan’s Taigei-class submarine—the “Big Whale”—is the first submarine class designed entirely around lithium-ion batteries, abandoning traditional Air-Independent Propulsion altogether. At just $700 million per...
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...