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The bureau that once measured fighter production in the thousands ended its line with a jet built in single digits. The MiG-35 had an...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: It weighs 35 pounds, a single soldier can fire it, and it has terrorized the Russian air force across two...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The Soviet MiG-23 Flogger was Moscow’s first swing-wing fighter, built in the late 1960s to rival the American F-4 Phantom....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: An American SR-71 Blackbird lost one engine to an inlet unstart at 83,000 feet and Mach 3 during a reconnaissance...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On September 26, 1983, Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov was on the midnight shift at the Serpukhov-15 command center when his early warning satellite...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Lockheed’s YF-12A was a Mach 3.2 Cold War interceptor born from the same Skunk Works lineage that produced the A-12 and SR-71. Built to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Convair B-58 Hustler was the world’s first operational Mach 2 bomber and one of the most dangerous aircraft Strategic Air Command ever flew....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The United States sourced titanium for the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft from the Soviet Union via CIA front companies. The U.S. built the...
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...