Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In the early 2000s, NASA was among the first to achieve sustained hypersonic flight. As part of the broader Hyper-X program, NASA developed the...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On October 3, 1967, U.S. Air Force pilot William “Pete” Knight flew the X-15A-2 to 4,520 miles per hour — Mach 6.7 — setting...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1960, nine years before he walked on the moon, a 30-year-old test pilot named Neil Armstrong applied to fly the X-20 Dyna-Soar —...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
NASA’s X-43D was designed to fly at Mach 15 — roughly 11,400 miles per hour, fast enough to cross the Atlantic Ocean in 18...
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The U.S. is spending $3.9 billion in 2026 to develop hypersonic weapons NASA already proved possible 22 years ago. In 2004, NASA’s X-43A hit...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The SR-71 Blackbird flew from London to New York in 1 hour, 54 minutes, and 56 seconds—an aircraft that literally outraced the sun. Built...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
NASA’s X-43A scramjet aircraft hit Mach 9.64 at 110,000 feet in November 2004—and that record for an air-breathing aircraft still stands more than two...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Synopsis: The X-20 Dyna-Soar was a Cold War-era attempt to build a reusable, piloted, winged spaceplane that could ride a booster into space, “skip”...
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,...