Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More F-35 Down: F-16 Fighting Falcon Fighters Used New Swarm Tactics to Overwhelm and Beat Stealth Fighters in Wargames The 20:1 Paradox: Why the F-35’s Staggering Red Flag Success Still Exposed a Fatal Flaw At Red Flag 2017, the F-35 Lightning II reportedly... Harrison KassApril 29, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More ‘The Time Traveler’: SR-71 Pilot Remembers Blackbird Flying So Quick It Landed at Beale AFB Almost Day Before Taking off From Kadena AB The SR-71 Blackbird was incredible. The Blackbird was conceptualized as a high-speed spy aircraft that could peer down at any location in the globe... Caleb LarsonApril 29, 2026
Uncategorized Scientists in China Think the New B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Has ‘Aerodynamic Weaknesses’ Chinese aerospace researchers stated a few months ago that they may have identified potential aerodynamic weaknesses in the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation B-21 Raider... Jack BuckbyApril 29, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More A Swedish Pilot Flew Alongside a Crippled SR-71 That Hit Mach 3 While Russian MiGs Were In Pursuit — Here Is What Happened Next How the SR-71 Blackbird Was Saved: The Saab JA-37 Viggen was a highly capable, advanced Swedish Cold War fighter active from 1980–2007. The Viggen... Steve BalestrieriApril 28, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More ‘It Was a Miracle’: A U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II Took Hundreds of Round and Somehow Made It Home In April of 2003, during the initial invasion phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Maj. Kim Campbell was flying an A-10 Thunderbolt II when it... Stephen SilverApril 27, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More The Air Force Can’t Build Another F-22 Raptor and the F-47 Isn’t Coming Until 2030s The United States Air Force and United States Navy will have to keep their current fighter fleets in service longer than anticipated, following new... Caleb LarsonApril 27, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More The Air Force’s B-1B Lancer ‘Bone’ Bomber Is Fighting In a World It Was Never Designed to Fly In The B-1B Lancer was first developed in the 1970s and was designed to penetrate Soviet airspace at high speeds and high altitudes in order... Isaac SeitzApril 27, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More F-21: The Fighter Jet You Get When You ‘Merge’ the F-16, F-22 and F-35 All In One 19FortyFive loves the F-16 fighter and has spent a lot of time over the last 9 months or so taking as much original photography... Steve BalestrieriApril 27, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More U.S. Military ‘Mistake’: The YF-23 Black Widow II Stealth Fighter Isn’t Flying for America and Russia and China are Smiling We have spent a lot of time with this fighter jet (both fighters that were built, that is), and we have the photos in... Steve BalestrieriApril 27, 2026