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U.S. officials estimate China intends to operate nine aircraft carriers by 2035 — a tripling of its current three-ship fleet in just a decade....
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy is reviving the concept of a nuclear-powered surface combatant outside aircraft carriers for the future Trump-class battleship program — the first...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia’s former Pacific Fleet commander Sergei Avakyants said the aircraft carrier “is already a bygone era. These are very expensive and ineffective naval weapons.”...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Lost in the shuffle of constant news of negotiations to finally end the U.S-Iranian war and the rise of fuel prices with a global...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1957, the U.S. Air Force began Project Pluto — a nuclear-powered cruise missile program. The result was the Supersonic Low Altitude Missile (SLAM)....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Lockheed D-21 was a Mach 3.3 reconnaissance drone. Lockheed’s Skunk Works built it in the early 1960s. Its mission: photograph China’s Lop Nor...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On August 29-30, 2007, six AGM-129 cruise missiles armed with W80-1 thermonuclear warheads were loaded onto a B-52H bomber at Minot Air Force Base....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52G strategic bomber from Seymour Johnson AFB in North Carolina — flying Operation Chrome Dome, a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 2005, a Swedish Saab-built Gotland-class diesel-electric submarine slipped past an entire U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group during joint naval drills — undetected....